Ontario Provincial Police Block

Millar: 25 per cent tax hike would be needed to cover doubling police costs TINY TOWNSHIP – Tiny Township residents could face a 25 per cent tax hike if a proposed Ontario Provincial Police billing model is implemented in 2015. The proposed formula would more than double Tiny’s policing costs to $3...

KEARNEY­ – Proposed changes to the OPP billing model could spell a 200 per cent increase and Kearney council wants to see the model scrapped. A resolution, passed unanimously by recorded vote, was brought forward at the Feb. 21 council meeting requesting the province scrap the proposed funding model...

Judge tosses drunk-driving charges for woman filmed while using OPP toilet The Ottawa woman’s Charter rights and right to dignity were infringed when she was forced to use the toilet under a surveillance camera in a Toronto OPP holding cell. Drunk-driving charges against an Ottawa woman were stayed...

An Oxford County OPP officer has been issued a provincial offences notice following a collision last week in Zorra Township. The crash occurred on March 12, 204 just after 8 am. OPP Technical Traffic Collision Investigators say the officer was driving a fully marked cruiser while responding to a ser...

The Ontario Provincial Police is locked into an ongoing struggle with municipalities complaining that rising policing costs are driving up property taxes — in some cases dramatically. The provincial police contend their proposed per household cost of $360 is good value and half the price of most mun...

TORONTO -- Irate rural homeowners are blaming soaring OPP salaries for massive hikes in their property taxes. Paul Newby owns a cottage in Algonquin Highlands. He says policing costs for the municipality are going from $3.3 million a year to $8.5 million in 2015 -- with no increase in service. It's ...

An OPP officer was charged with making an unlawful turn today, during his investigation of another accident on Highway 29 near New Dublin. On March 12, around noon, the officer had just completed a collision investigation on Highway 29, near New Dublin, when he had one of his own. Const. Chris Trowe...

BROCKVILLE, Ont. - A provincial police officer has been charged in connection with an accident that took place just as he wrapped an investigation of a separate crash. Leeds County OPP say an officer who had just completed a collision investigation on Highway 29 north of Brockville on Wednesday atte...

Ontario’s police watchdog has charged a Lambton OPP officer in relation a Plympton-Wyoming collision last fall that resulted in serious injuries to a 25-year-old woman. The Special Investigations Unit determined that on September 14, 2013, OPP officers attempted to stop a vehicle being operated by a...

OTTAWA — Ontario Provincial Police have charged one of their officers under the Highway Traffic Act after an on-duty crash near Brockville. Police said the officer had just finished a crash investigation around noon on Wednesday on Highway 29 about 15 kilometres northwest of Brockville. When the off...

An Ontario Provincial Police officer faces a traffic charge following a collision on County Road 29 Wednesday afternoon. An OPP officer had completed an investigation of another collision around noon, near New Dublin, the OPP reported. As he left the investigation scene, he tried to turn around, to ...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - A provincial police officer faces a dangerous driving charge after an investigation by Ontario's police watchdog. The Special Investigations Unit found that on Sept. 14 last year, OPP officers tried to stop a vehicle being driven by a 29-year-old man in Plympton-Wyoming, east of ...

An 18-year member of the OPP was charged after backing a marked cruiser into another marked cruiser on a portion of Highway 401 that travels through Oxford County. The officer stopped on the shoulder of the Highway to check on the wellbeing of a motorist sometime on March 1. Once clear of the call f...

Sioux Lookout Mayor Dennis Leney is hoping to address the cost of policing in the municipality. He says he's concerned about the amount Sioux Lookout residents are paying, compared to other municipalities across Ontario. "We have the busiest detachment in the province, and our cost per househol...

A review is being launched into the OPP’s mass-collection of DNA samples from dozens of Caribbean and other seasonal workers while probing sexual assault allegations last summer at a farm near Tillsonburg. A probe into the OPP is being welcomed by Justicia for Migrant Workers, a community group that...