Ontario Provincial Police Block

Once undercover, Hamilton cop alleges police didn't have his back Paul Manning and Sabina Manning are suing for damages after they say Hamilton police failed to protect them He was working undercover as a Hamilton Police officer, standing on the patio of a James Street North bar one day 10 years ag...

Last month's decision to not release the names of OPP officers who were on the province's $100,000 Salary Disclosure has been suddenly reversed by the service's top command. OPP Commissioner Vince Hawkes directed detachments to release the names - but not the salaries - of OPP employees on the list,...

TIMMINS - Cecile Fournel, the disgraced ex-cop and Timmins woman convicted of arson, has won the right to appeal a parole board decision that previously denied her full parole and day parole, The Daily Press has learned. It means Fournel, who was convicted of purposely setting her daughter-in-law’s ...

Almaguin, Parry Sound municipalities vow to combat high OPP bill s ALMAGUIN – District municipalities are banding together to tackle rising policing costs. At the District of Parry Sound Municipal Association spring meeting on April 29, hosted by the Town of Kearney, east and west Parry Sound munic...

An Ontario judge will review the province's police oversight agencies over a fatal police shooting in Toronto. Ontario's police watchdog found a Toronto officer was justified in killing a man armed with a hammer. Protesters angry the Special Investigations Unit's report wasn't made public camped out...

Ontario launches police oversight review, partially releases SIU's Loku report TORONTO -- An Ontario judge has been tapped to lead a review of the province's police oversight agencies -- a move the Liberal government announced as it partially released a report into a fatal police shooting. The gove...

Michael Tulloch served as defence lawyer before joining the bench; now, in the wake of the SIU’s Andrew Loku report, he’ll examine the state of Ontario’s police watchdogs. The judge appointed to head a provincial review of police oversight bodies has been described as a well-rounded man with a stro...

Special Investigations Unit Ontario has appointed the Honourable Michael H. Tulloch, a judge of the Ontario Court of Appeal, to lead an independent review of the three agencies that oversee police conduct in the province: the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the Office of the Independent Police R...

Community Safety and Correctional Services Sunshine List for year 2015 Number of entries 5451, the majority of which are OPP personnel Abbott Christopher $104,880.22 Building Systems Operator Abdo Reema $117,655.42 Team Leader Abrams Craig $143,637.60 Manager Acay Sergei $128,164.05 Supervisor Acer...

How embarrassing. Police entities across Ontario are under the microscope right now. There is a heightened attention from the public and media to various police enforcement tactics, and a recent Court of Appeal ruling had some strong words for an Ontario officer who Justice Peter Lauwers said violat...

Withdrawn charges related to key Crown witness, the accused's ex-girlfriend Saying there was no reasonable prospect of conviction, the Crown withdrew the vast majority of charges against an Elliot Lake police officer when his trial resumed this week at the Sault Ste. Marie courthouse. With 23 of th...

Ontario is one of two provinces in Canada where police officers facing allegations of misconduct can’t be placed on unpaid leave. Suspensions without pay are only an option in cases where officers have been convicted of criminal offences and sentenced to jail time, and are still facing discipline un...

Danger came with Paul Manning’s job. One time, as an undercover Hamilton police officer, he was lured into a dark basement, certain that he was about to get a bullet in the back of the head. Other times, the danger came from within. Feeling sold out and alone, Manning says he placed his service hand...

A former Hamilton undercover police officer, on stress leave, has filed a lawsuit against the Hamilton Police Service and the OPP for 6.75 million dollars. A story in the Spectator says Paul Manning is alleging the service failed to protect him and his family while he was undercover investigating or...

BARRIE - The way Wasaga Beach OPP brass entrapped officer Kara Darnley was “akin to cattle being scuttled toward their slaughter,” her lawyer says. “There was no turning left or right, she was scuttled along to the end direction,” Angela McLeod argued during her client’s entrapment hearing Tuesday. ...