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by Thomas
Fri Feb 07, 2025 7:32 am
Forum: Policing the Police
Topic: Citizen files complaint with OPP over Dunlop's campaign 'stunt'
Replies: 0
Views: 11

Citizen files complaint with OPP over Dunlop's campaign 'stunt'

'Officers also have a responsibility to demonstrate neutrality and remain non-partisan in all situations,' says OPP official, noting officers in question did not face sanctions

An Orillia man was "disturbed" when he saw uniformed Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers smiling and seemingly ...
by Thomas
Wed Feb 05, 2025 3:34 am
Forum: Special Investigations Unit (SIU)
Topic: SIU clears OPP in October arrest of Tecumseh man
Replies: 0
Views: 102

SIU clears OPP in October arrest of Tecumseh man

The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) will not pursue charges against officers involved in the arrest of a Tecumseh man.

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to a home in Tecumseh on October 5, 2024, to follow up on a noise complaint.

Outside the home, where a house party was taking place ...
by Thomas
Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:15 am
Forum: Incompetence
Topic: Essex councillors to receive report card of OPP performance
Replies: 0
Views: 788

Essex councillors to receive report card of OPP performance

While Essex residents praise individual Ontario Provincial Police officers for their professionalism, they have concerns about a lack of visibility in the community and increased crime.

Essex Town Council receives the results of an online community survey on Monday night.

Councillors asked for the ...
by Thomas
Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:13 am
Forum: Federal Statutes
Topic: Bracebridge OPP officer charged with assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon
Replies: 3
Views: 7470

OPP officer pleads guilty to assault after violent arrest caught on camera

Warning: Readers may find details in this article disturbing.

A longtime Ontario Provincial Police officer who was charged with assaulting a shirtless man nearly three years ago during an arrest for alleged trespassing, has pleaded guilty.

OPP veteran officer Scott Anthony, 27, walked into the ...
by Thomas
Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:22 am
Forum: Special Investigations Unit (SIU)
Topic: Man seriously injured after being shot by OPP near Kingston
Replies: 2
Views: 4100

SIU investigating after police shoot, seriously injure man in eastern Ontario

NAPANEE, Ont. — Ontario's police watchdog says it is investigating after an officer shot a man in Camden East on Friday evening.

The Special Investigations Unit says provincial police were called to a home in the community outside of Napanee at about 5 p.m. for reports of a disturbance.

The agency ...
by Thomas
Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:22 am
Forum: Special Investigations Unit (SIU)
Topic: Man seriously injured after being shot by OPP near Kingston
Replies: 2
Views: 4100

SIU investigating police-involved incident in Stone Mills

A man was seriously injured during a police-involved incident in the Camden East area of Stone Mills Township on Friday, January 17, 2025.

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers from the Lennox and Addington County Detachment and the OPP Emergency Response Team responded to a disturbance at a ...
by Thomas
Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:20 am
Forum: Special Investigations Unit (SIU)
Topic: Man seriously injured after being shot by OPP near Kingston
Replies: 2
Views: 4100

Man seriously injured after being shot by OPP near Kingston

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a man was shot by police Friday northwest of Kingston, Ont., and taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Just after 5 p.m., Ontario Provincial Police responded to a "disturbance" at a residence on County Road 4 near the village of Camden East in ...
by Thomas
Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:18 am
Forum: Manslaughter
Topic: Nathaniel Schofield dead after spending night in Rockwood OPP cell
Replies: 6
Views: 9260

Formal complaint filed against OPP over man's death while in custody

GUELPH/WELLINGTON – It’s been more than six months since Nathaniel Schofield, 36, died after going into medical distress while in custody at the Rockwood OPP station.

In that time, Schofield’s mother Faye Dzikewich said she hasn’t heard a word from the OPP or the Special Investigations Unit (SIU ...
by Thomas
Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:09 am
Forum: Manslaughter
Topic: Nathaniel Schofield dead after spending night in Rockwood OPP cell
Replies: 6
Views: 9260

Schofield’s mother files complaint against OPP with oversight agency

GUELPH – The mother of an Arthur man who died in police custody has filed an official complaint against the OPP.

Nathaniel Schofield, a 36-year-old father of six, died on July 10 after spending a night at the Wellington OPP station in Rockwood. He was arrested the previous evening following a ...
by Thomas
Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:50 am
Forum: Federal Statutes
Topic: Bracebridge OPP officer charged with assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon
Replies: 3
Views: 7470

OPP officer charged with assault expected to plead guilty

Warning: Readers may find details in this article disturbing.

A month before what was supposed to be the start of his trial in Huntsville, Const. Scott Anthony, the suspended Bracebridge OPP officer charged with assaulting a man during an arrest in July 2022 in MacTier, is expected to plead ...
by Thomas
Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:08 pm
Forum: Collisions
Topic: Crash involving OPP cruiser closed Collingwood intersection for hours
Replies: 1
Views: 6297

Investigation underway in OPP cruiser and vehicle collision

A busy area in Collingwood was closed to traffic after a two-vehicle collision involving an OPP cruiser on Thursday afternoon.

Police say the officer was headed to a service call around 2:45 p.m. in a fully-marked OPP cruiser when the collision happened with a civilian vehicle at the intersection ...
by Thomas
Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:45 am
Forum: Collisions
Topic: Man, 18, charged after collision involving Ontario Premier Doug Ford
Replies: 1
Views: 741

Doug Ford says he’s fine after Highway 401 crash, 18-year-old from Oshawa charged

TORONTO - An 18-year-old from Oshawa has been charged with dangerous driving after a collision with an Ontario Provincial Police vehicle that Premier Doug Ford was travelling in.

Ford said he was all right but the vehicle he was in got “hammered” when it was hit by another car Wednesday on Highway ...
by Thomas
Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:39 am
Forum: Collisions
Topic: Man, 18, charged after collision involving Ontario Premier Doug Ford
Replies: 1
Views: 741

Man, 18, charged after collision involving Ontario Premier Doug Ford

An 18-year-old Oshawa man has been charged with dangerous driving after a collision involving an Ontario Provincial Police vehicle that was transporting Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday, the OPP says.

The premier, his staff and the OPP officers with him were unhurt, according to Grace Lee ...
by Thomas
Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:37 am
Forum: Collisions
Topic: Collision involving OPP cruiser on Christmas Day
Replies: 0
Views: 1300

Collision involving OPP cruiser on Christmas Day

Lennox and Addington County OPP say there were no serious injuries after a collision involving an OPP cruiser in Greater Napanee.

The collision between two vehicles happened on Christmas Day at around 6 p.m. on Bridge Street West.

Lennox and Addington County Detachment was responding to a priority ...
by Thomas
Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:54 am
Forum: Unsustainable Costs
Topic: Grey-Bruce communities with municipal police services request funding
Replies: 0
Views: 2893

Grey-Bruce communities with municipal police services request funding

Grey-Bruce municipalities with their own police services are raising concerns about not receiving the additional funding their municipal peers who contract the OPP for policing are being granted.

The mayors of Owen Sound, Hanover and West Grey have sent a joint letter to Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP ...