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A Chatham-Kent provincial police officer charged with manslaughter in a fatal shooting on Highway 401 in the summer of 2021 is headed to trial. A Chatham-Kent provincial police officer charged with manslaughter in a fatal shooting on Highway 401 in the summer of 2021 is headed to trial. Sean O’Rour...

Hearing scheduled for 3 Kawartha Lakes OPP officers charged with manslaughter in connection to toddler's shooting death A 10-day preliminary hearing is slated to start in December to determine if there's enough evidence to take officers to trial A hearing will take place later this year to determin...

Police violations of Charter rights highlight the need for accountability and transparency In 2021 and 2022, the Hidden Racial Profiling Project (HRPP) at Western University’s Faculty of Law helped the Toronto Star identify more than 600 court decisions from the past decade that found Canadian poli...

In an effort to attract more people into policing and get rid of officer shortages in Ontario, the provincial government has lowered some requirements. The shortage of front-line officers has existed for several years according to Jeff McGuire, the executive director of the Ontario Association of Ch...

Future Ontario Police Officers Will No Longer Need Post-Secondary Education Ontario said it will be changing certain policies such as attempting to remove the requirement of having completed post-secondary education. In an effort to boost police recruitment in Ontario, the provincial government sai...

Ontario eliminating tuition fees and post-secondary education requirements for new police officers Ontario is making some major changes in an effort to boost police recruitment, including eliminating tuition fees and post-secondary education requirements. Speaking in Etobicoke, Ont., Premier Doug F...

Police closed a section of County Road 24 in East Garafraxa Friday morning for a collision involving an OPP cruiser. Dufferin OPP closed the road between 10 and 15 Sideroad following the crash. Paramedics took one person to the hospital with what are described as minor injuries. Police say the offic...

Sentencing delayed for OPP officer convicted of sexual assault A sentencing hearing for an Ontario Provincial Police officer convicted of sexual assault has been delayed by six weeks. A sentencing hearing for an Ontario Provincial Police officer convicted of sexual assault has been delayed by six w...

OPP officer who made video recording while raping woman faces 11 new assault charges The alleged victim in the new assault charges is not the same woman from Jason Redmond’s sexual assault conviction earlier this year An embattled Ontario Provincial Police officer was back in court once again, this...

Jason Redmond was on the provincial payroll in 2015 when he trafficked medical marijuana and forged a criminal document. Taxpayers were still paying his salary two years later when he sexually assaulted an unconscious woman and made a video of it to “teach her a lesson” about excessive drinking. Red...

‘There’s just no justification’: More than 120 police officers in Ontario are currently suspended with pay At a time of calls to defund the police, the Ontario government has still not given police forces greater ability to suspend officers without pay. After five years, four Toronto cops accused b...

KENORA – News – Two Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers from the Kenora Detachment have been charged with assault. The charges come after an incident on December 26, 2022, when officers responded to a reported disturbance on Matheson Street in Kenora. It was reported that a paramedic, who was r...

Ontario to finally enact law tightening up paid leave for suspended cops After a provincial police officer who had been on paid leave for almost a decade was convicted of sexual assault, Premier Doug Ford’s government says it's now aiming to enact a law it passed more than four years ago to prevent...

Solicitor general says Ontario policing law should be enacted 'as soon as possible' Law would allow chief to suspend an officer without pay if they're charged with a serious offence Ontario's solicitor general says he is trying to complete consultations on a four-year-old policing law that hasn't b...

Officer’s sex assault conviction ‘troubling,’ OPP commissioner says The commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police says the actions of a Leeds County officer convicted of sexual assault are “unacceptable,” and that his agency has been trying to fire him for years. In response to the Recorder and...