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MAITLAND – An Ontario Provincial Police officer, a suspect and two other civilians were injured in a crash involving a police cruiser, a fleeing suspect vehicle and a third vehicle near here on Saturday morning. The three suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police reported Sunday, adding a Missi...

Ron Taverner organized goodbye party for colleague who later hired him to head OPP, e-mails show Toronto Police Superintendent Ron Taverner helped organize a banquet to honour the police commander-turned-civil servant who, weeks later, would hire him as the head of the Ontario Provincial Police. Wo...

Judgement in case of officer charged with Oneida’s woman’s death expected Friday The judge presiding over the case of a London police officer accused of not providing necessities of life for a First Nations mother he arrested in 2016 is expected to deliver a verdict on Friday. Justice Ranee Pomeran...

BRACEBRIDGE - Members of the Bracebridge Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) investigated a collision between a marked OPP vehicle and a 10-year-old cyclist on Muskoka Road North in Gravenhurst on Aug. 8, 2019. The northbound OPP vehicle was turning into a commercial parking lot when t...

GRAVENHURST, Ont. — A provincial police officer has been charged in a crash involving a police cruiser and a cyclist this summer. Ontario Provincial Police say the collision took place Aug. 8 in Gravenhurst, Ont. They say a marked OPP cruiser was turning into a parking lot when it collided with a cy...

An Ontario Provincial Police officer is facing a traffic charge in connection with an incident back in August. Police say the officer was driving a marked police cruiser on Muskoka Road North in Gravenhurst when the vehicle hit a child riding a bike. The 10-year-old was taken to hospital, treated fo...

OPP officer charged following August collision involving 10-year-old cyclist in Gravenhurst An OPP officer has been charged following an August collision that took place in Gravenhurst and involved a 10-year-old cyclist, police say. The 10-year member of the OPP has been charged with not turning sa...

An Ontario Provincial Police officer is facing a traffic charge in connection with an incident back in August. Police say the officer was driving a marked police cruiser on Muskoka Road North in Gravenhurst when the vehicle hit a child riding a bike. The 10-year-old was taken to hospital, treated fo...

A nine-year Ontario Provincial Police veteran has been charged following a crash in Tyendinaga Township last month. Emergency services were called to Lazier Road at about 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 28 for a crash involving an all-terrain vehicle. The OPP said the vehicle was being ridden on private property...

Central Hastings OPP officer charged with impaired driving after ATV crash An OPP officer has been charged with impaired driving after police say she was involved in an ATV collision while off duty in Tyendinaga Township. Det. Const. Trisha Salmon, a nine-year veteran with the OPP’s Central Hasting...

Report on police suicides released; ‘People are dying every day,’ says city councillor Barrie psychologist participates in panel study examining nine police suicides in 2018 In 2018, nine police officers died by suicide in Ontario. A recent report released by the Ontario Chief Coroner’s office hope...

THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA HOLDS THAT THE COMMON LAW DOES NOT EMPOWER THE POLICE TO ARREST A PERSON WHO IS ACTING LAWFULLY Supreme Court of Canada Case in Depth: Fleming v Ontario, 2019 SCC 45 The Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Fleming v Ontario, on October 4, 2019. The decision ...

A one-year constable with Quinte West OPP has been charged after a crash in the city yesterday (Tuesday). Investigators say the cruiser hit a civilian vehicle on Front Street around 12:15 p.m. and nobody was injured. The officer has been charged with following too closely under the Highway Traffic A...