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200 people riot in Pikangikum; police vehicles and headquarters damaged PIKANGIKUM FIRST NATION, Ont. – Three police vehicles and the remote reserve's police building were damaged during a violent protest following an officer's altercation with a community member. About 200 members of Pikangikum Fi...

OPP say protest prompted by stun gun arrest The Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a protest on Saturday that destroyed three police vehicles and left officers barricaded inside their detachment in Pikangikum, a northern Ontario First Nation of roughly 2,400 people. A small protest began o...

OPP officer charged after cruiser hits light standard in Aberfoyle ABERFOYLE — A Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police officer has been charged in connection with an on-duty collision on Tuesday. The officer, a 12-year-veteran, was charged with making an unsafe turn in the single-vehicle inci...

ABERFOYLE — A Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police officer has been charged in connection with an on-duty collision on Tuesday. The officer, a 12-year-veteran, was charged with making an unsafe turn in the single-vehicle incident Tuesday at 6 p.m. The charge was laid after a vehicle making a ...

An OPP constable has been charged after her cruiser crashed in Aberfoyle earlier this week. According to an OPP press release, the officer was turning from Wellington Road 24 onto Wellington Road 46 on Tuesday, when the vehicle hit a traffic light pole in the centre median. The pole was knocked down...

(THUNDER BAY, ON) – A member of the Ontario Provincial Police from the North West Region has been charged following an investigation by members of the Kenora OPP Detachment. An investigation was initiated following an incident that occurred in Kenora on June 21. As a result of the investigation, the...

A Kenora OPP officer is in trouble with the law. Constable Steve Tetreault has been charged with assault stemming from an incident that took place back on June 21st. The 46-year-old officer was not on duty at the time. Tetreault is a 25-year veteran of the police service and is currently on leave. H...

OPP Const. Steve Tetreault, 46, charged after police called to campsite near Kenora A 25-year veteran of the Ontario Provincial Police is charged with assault after an early morning incident on June 21 at a campsite near Kenora, Ont. Const. Steve Tetreault, 46, was off-duty at the time of the alleg...

Reacting to high OPP costs, municipalities make 34 suggestions PARRY SOUND – Thirty-four recommendations for the future of policing were released earlier in April in a report completed by the Association of Municipalities Ontario. The Association of Municipalities Ontario (AMO) formed a task force ...

Fraud charges against former OPP sergeant resurface after top court quashes judge’s stay order TORONTO — A former OPP officer and Mississauga resident has been ordered back to trial court after Ontario’s top court set aside a judge’s order that fraud-related charges against him be stayed. Yesterday...

SIU investigating after man in police custody fell died after being released from OPP custody in Kawartha Lakes KAWARTHA LAKES - The Special Investigations Unit is investigating the death of a man who had been in police custody in Kawartha Lakes. A press release issued by the SIU, states a 62-year-...

Sentencing hearing set for October for impaired driver Dr. Christy Natsis A three-day sentencing hearing has been set in October for a prominent Pembroke dentist convicted of impaired and dangerous driving causing death. Dr. Christy Natsis’s sentencing hearing will be held on Oct. 13, 14 and 15 in ...

OPP officer arrested again, faces drug and gambling-related charges An Ottawa OPP officer has been arrested for the second time in 12 months and charged with cocaine possession and a gambling-related offence after being found in an illegal gaming house. Const. Dennis Hill, a 14-year veteran, was ar...

OTTAWA—A provincial police officer is facing charges along with 10 others after police say they raided an illegal gambling organization in an Ottawa residence. Police allege that on Wednesday night, officers conducted a search warrant on an “organization keeping a common gaming house” (on Snowdon St...

Dennis Hill, Ottawa OPP officer, charged after gaming house bust Officer was previously charged with theft, resisting arrest in 2014 A 14-year member of the Ontario Provincial Police force has been charged after OPP busted an alleged illegal gaming house in Ottawa's Alta Vista neighbourhood on Frid...