Ontario Provincial Police Block

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. ...

Rural municipalities continue to push for lower policing costs OPP costs should be brought into line with other policing costs in Canada. That’s the contention of McNab-Braeside councillors, who expressed support for efforts by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) and the Rural Mayors...

Ontario Provincial Police contact writer over sarcastic, critical tweet Scary stuff but is anyone worried in brain dead Ontario? It couldn't be more like George Orwell's novel "1984": The Ontario Provincial Police told people, via Twitter, that they should "think" before they tw...

A Wasaga Beach OPP officer wept in court late last night as a jury found her guilty of breach of trust, but not guilty of obstruction of justice. "'It's very disheartening," said Const. Kara Darnley as she stood outside of court with her mother and father. "This has been going on for ...

Haliburton County will lodge a complaint with the Ontario Ombudsman regarding the OPP billing formula, asking the ombudsman's office to review the billing framework that came into effect last year. “I'm suggesting that we reach out to the ombudsman,” said Dysart et al Reeve Murray Fearrey during a s...

A Wasaga Beach OPP officer has been found guilty of breach of trust. A jury handed down the decision Wednesday (Apr 13/16). Constable Kara Darnley (pictured) was acquitted of another charge, obstructing justice, in a case that's been dragging on for 4 years and involved a bizarre set of circumstance...

BARRIE - A Wasaga Beach OPP officer once dubbed “Canada’s Hot Cop” wept in court Wednesday after a jury found her guilty of breach of trust. “It’s very disheartening,” said Const. Kara Darnley, as she stood outside of court with her mother and father. “This has been going on for four years.” Court h...

BARRIE - It doesn’t matter that Wasaga Beach OPP Const. Kara Darnley was duped by her boss into thinking her fiance’s friends were drug dealers. What matters, the Crown says, is that she took the phony police information that she believed was confidential and showed it to him. “She did it to protect...

Northumberland OPP officer, Constable James Orser pleaded guilty Monday to Discreditable Conduct at a Police Services Act hearing in Orillia. The charge stems from a compromising cellphone video Orser made in 2011 of a person and then shared with other OPP officers. Sentencing submissions will be ma...

Bluewater Mayor says municipalities could face $1.5 million for OPP in 2020. Rural municipalities across our province continue to wrestle with constantly escalating costs for OPP protection, while trying to maintain necessary policing levels. Bluewater Mayor Tyler Hessel says his municipality is be...

The courts have denied an application by a Huronia West OPP officer facing several charges to have those charges severed into two separate trials. Kara Darnley was charged in 2012 with three counts of breach of trust, one count of obstructing justice, a count of theft, and a count of possession of s...

BARRIE — OPP Const. Kara Darnley’s phony new partner not only recorded her every word as part of an undercover integrity test, she pushed her to fail it, her lawyer says. Undercover police conducted about 600 hours of surveillance, including some 480 hours of audio recordings, on the Wasaga Beach of...