Ontario Provincial Police Block

TIMMINS - The Timmins woman convicted of trying to set her daughter-in-law’s house on fire in 2009 has been released from prison.Cecile Fournel, the ex-OPP officer, was released earlier this week from the “She has two specific conditions. One is that she is not to return to Timmins unless she has sp...

“Please consider this our official complaint with respect to the billing formula for allocating costs to municipalities for policing services delivered by the Ontario Provincial Police, and our formal request that your office undertake an investigation into its fairness,” reads the submission the Co...

The Township of Admaston-Bromley passed its 2016 budget with a tax rate increase of 3.28 per cent on May 19. The municipal levy totals $1,774,445, which is an 8.9 per cent increase from 2015. Mayor Michael Donohue praised staff and council for their work and is pleased with the budget. “I feel this ...

ALEXANDRIA -- There is a looming possibility a legal case of police accountability with considerable public interest could be held in Ottawa, instead in a local courtroom. Two SDG OPP officers, Consts. Luanne MacDonald and John Bernard, have been charged in relation to incidents involving voyeurism ...

An off-duty Ontario Provincial Police officer from Wellington County has been charged following an alleged road rage confrontation in Cambridge on the weekend. Waterloo Regional Police said the OPP officer was allegedly involved in an altercation with two people in a plaza on Dundas Street. The offi...

UPDATE: OPP sergeant suspended after being charged following road rage incident in Cambridge CAMBRIDGE — A veteran Ontario Provincial Police sergeant who faces charges of assault and making threats after a road rage incident on March 13 is suspended with pay, says the OPP. Sgt. Rui Pacheco of Welli...

The Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant who was recently charged following what police described as a case of road rage in Cambridge, has now been suspended. The OPP launched an internal investigation into that matter that took place on March 13, at a plaza on Dundas Street near Franklin Boulevard. O...

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — An OPP officer is facing charges after what police are calling an alleged case of road rage. Police say the incident took place in Cambridge, Ont., on Sunday night. The officer faces two charges of assault and two charges of uttering threats. The 19 year veteran is currently servin...

WELLINGTON CTY. - A Wellington County OPP sergeant, arrested and charged after a recent road rage incident, has now been suspended. He was not on duty at the time. Sergeant Rui Pacheco, a 19-year officer, was charged with two counts of assault and two counts of uttering threats. “It was an altercati...

Police killed northern Ontario First Nation man, inquest jury concludes Jury recommends better mental health services, more police training The jury at the coroner's inquest into the death of a Lac Seul First Nation man, shot by provincial police in 2010, made recommendations this week that police ...

OPP officer found not guilty of assault after First Nation man injured in jail cell Throwing intoxicated, handcuffed man to floor of cell was 'necessary, reasonable,' judge rules A provincial police officer has been found not guilty of assault, for a second time, after a 2012 altercation in a Green...

The SIU will not be laying charges against an Ontario Provincial Police officer involved in a 2012 incident that left a Pikangikum First Nations man partially blind. The case was reported to the SIU on July 13, 2015, after the man’s father reported to the OPP that his son has lost sight in one eye d...

SIU clears officer after northern Ontario man blinded in eye by Taser prong SIU was unable to determine if the officer deliberately fired at the man's face or it was happenstance The province's police watchdog says there are no reasonable grounds to charge a provincial police officer after a Pikang...

No charges for OPP officer in incident that partially blinded man The SIU said there are “no reasonable grounds” to charge police officer involved in a Taser incident that left a Pikangikum First Nation man blind in one eye. An OPP officer shoots a man in the face with a Taser. It takes more than t...

A decision by the province’s top court will make it even harder to convict police officers of wrongdoing, charges the lawyer for a man who claims he was kneed in the head during a 2009 arrest. “It’s a very sad day,” lawyer Lawrence Greenspon said. “The effect of this decision is that there is one st...