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A three-year placement with a specialized team of health care and social service professionals from 2006-’09 stabilized Matthew Roke’s mental illness and left him with a positive attitude and a budding career as an arborist. On the eighth day of a coroner’s inquest into the fatal Ontario Provincial ...

Vaughan MP Julian Fantino could be hauled before a human rights tribunal, once again, to defend his firing of a First Nations police chief without a hearing back when he was OPP commissioner. Lawyers for Lawrence Hay on Monday called on Divisional Court to quash a previous Human Rights Tribunal of O...

One Board member wants to meet with the Minister in charge of the OPP. A member of the Orillia Police Services Board wants to see the province to do something about the way municipalities are being billed for the OPP. The Board agreed to send a letter to the Minister of Community Safety and Correct...

SIMCOE - The investigation into a missing gun at the Norfolk OPP detachment is continuing, say police. “It’s still very high on our radar and it is an issue we want a resolution to,” said Sgt. Dave Rektor, head of the OPP’s communications bureau for the Western Region. OPP investigators were called ...

ORILLIA - The OPP’s new billing model is a redistribution of costs, not a solution, says Coun. Patrick Kehoe. “I see it as a Band-Aid,” Kehoe said during Tuesday’s Orillia Police Services Board (OPSB) meeting. “We’re treating a symptom, but not addressing the problem.” While the new billing model, t...

A young Maitland man shot dead by OPP officers during a mental health crisis on May 2, 2012 responded well to treatment but was reluctant to remain on his medications, a psychiatrist who saw Matthew Roke months before his death told an inquest Monday. ON THE PHOTO: The four Ontario Provincial Police...

A portrait of a troubled young man and a family frustrated by a flawed mental health system emerged on the fourth day of an inquest into a fatal OPP shooting two years ago at Maitland. Jody Roke, mother of 33-year-old Matthew Roke who was killed during a psychotic episode May 2, 2012 when he threate...

A pair of Prescott provincial police officers who fatally shot a 33-year-old Maitland man during a schizophrenic episode two years ago say they followed their training and believe they had no alternative. ON THE PHOTO: The four Ontario Provincial Police constables involved in the May 2012 call to th...

Police officers who shot and killed Matthew Roke on May 2 2012 when he was suffering a schizophrenic episode near his family home in Maitland were following proper procedure, a coroner’s inquest heard Wednesday. Ontario Police College instructors Ron Hoffman and Paul Bonner told the hearing at St. L...

Two of the four officers on scene when provincial police shot Matthew Roke gave emotional testimony during the first day of an inquest into the 33-year-old schizophrenic man’s death. ON THE PHOTO: The four Ontario Provincial Police constables involved in the May 2012 call to the Matthew Roke inciden...

It's a tragic situation that happens far too often, but Colin Slack hopes an inquest into the death of a local mentally ill man killed by police will finally get lawmakers' attention. Slack, the executive director of the Leeds and Grenville chapter of the Canadian Mental Health Association, said Thu...

The regional coroner's office will hold an inquest into the death of Matthew Roke, who was killed in a confrontation with Ontario Provincial Police officers in May 2012. Dr. Louise McNaughton-Filion, the Regional Supervising Coroner for the East Region's Ottawa Office, announced the inquest Wednesda...

MAITLAND - News that the province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has cleared two Ontario Provincial Police officers in the shooting death of their son actually came as a relief to John and Jody Roke. Had there been charges going forward against the officers, they said Thursday, it would have de...

SIU clears OPP in Roke shooting MAITLAND - The province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has cleared two Grenville County Ontario Provincial Police officers in the shooting death last month of 33-year-old Matthew Roke, noting in a report that the Maitland-area man lunged at one officer with a kn...

Ex-police chief takes former OPP commissioner Julian Fantino to court Lawrence Hay wants to quash a ruling that his axing had nothing to do with his aboriginal status A First Nations police chief, fired without a hearing for branding Ontario's provincial police force and the RCMP as racist, takes h...