Ontario Provincial Police Block

A Norfolk County OPP officer has been charged with three counts of assault. Provincial police say an eight-year member of the force was arrested and charged Thursday. Members of the Huron County OPP's crime unit were called in to investigate the allegations on Wednesday. The officer, who has not bee...

An OPP officer in Norfolk County is charged with three counts of assault. Huron County OPP started an investigation into an alleged assault involving the officer on Wednesday. The eight-year member of the service was subsequently charged on Thursday. He is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 6. The...

An Ottawa couple is outraged after provincial police directed them off the road and into a parking lot near the Thousand Islands border crossing only to be asked after 10 minutes of waiting whether they wanted to participate in a voluntary travel survey. Paul Hardy said he was travelling to Watertow...

Former OPP officer faces over 40 drug and sexual offence charges. (Hanover ) - A former OPP officer has been arrested for the third time in less than two months and now faces over 40 drug and sexual offence charges. 53 year old John Paul Stone was arrested at a home on 11th avenue in Hanover yester...

Man charged with ramming OPP cruiser acquitted in Sarnia court A two-day trial of a man charged with ramming an OPP cruiser, leaving an officer injured, ended with an acquittal in Sarnia court. Cody Winston Price, 25, of Oil Springs had been charged with dangerous driving, failing to stop for polic...

Craig Wattier, a 30-year veteran of Peel Regional Police and a supervisor in the Technological Crime Unit, was charged this week with fraud and child pornography. The officer has been suspended but he will continue to draw a paycheque as required under current provincial legislation, Peel police chi...

TORONTO - Released on bail, Peel Regional Police Det. Craig Wattier was allowed to go home with his wife to await trial on child porn and fraud charges. And lucky for him, the 30-year veteran gets to sit there and collect his police paycheque while doing nothing at all. How much longer must taxpayer...

A Lambton County man was within his rights to resist an arrest for refusing to submit to a breath test, because there were no legal grounds for the breath test, a Sarnia court judge ruled Tuesday. The man was acquitted Tuesday of refusing a breath test demand and for resisting arrest following a th...

What happens when police officers face criminal charges in Ontario? When a police officer is charged with a crime should the public always be informed? There is a patchwork of policies that vary from police service to police service across Ontario, with some opting for automatic full disclosure and...

Former police officer accused of more sexual offences involving kids Eighteen more sex-related charges and 12 drug trafficking charges have been laid against a Listowel-area resident. John Stone, 53, was first charged with sexual offences in July. Those charges related to multiple alleged cases of ...

No amount of money could ever make up for what happened to Laurie Massicotte. Still, some is finally coming her way. Almost six years after she was viciously attacked by the then base commander at CFB Trenton, disgraced ex-Col. Russell Williams, the Toronto Sun has learned the province has settled i...

It offends most intelligent people that suspended officers can sit at home watching television or golfing on full pay for years in Ontario. Many taxpayers were horrified last month when they learned a suspended Waterloo Police Service officer emailed his superiors to thank them for the three years ...

Agency was investigating whether Sgt. Russell Watson used excessive force against Orillia woman No charges will be laid in the case of a grandmother who suffered catastrophic injuries in an altercation with a police officer, Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has determined. Provincial Court Jus...

OPP officer cleared of wrongdoing for the second time in woman's arrest An officer who arrested a woman that resulted in her sustaining injuries didn't commit any criminal offence, according to Ontario's police oversight body, the Special Investigations Unit. SIU director Tony Loparco says the arre...

Police watchdog decides for a second time not to lay charges against OPP officer Sgt. Russell Watson was again under investigation for the 2013 altercation with Orillia woman who was left with “catastrophic” injuries. Ontario’s police watchdog has decided for a second time not to lay charges agains...