Ontario Provincial Police Block

Queen’s Park is finally clamping down on what can be disclosed in police background checks to protect innocent Ontarians in the wake of a Star investigation. Queen’s Park is finally clamping down on what can be disclosed in police background checks to protect innocent Ontarians in the wake of a Star...

JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF ONTARIO WELCOMES NEW PROVINCIAL POLICE RECORD CHECK LEGISLATION TORONTO - For over a decade, the John Howard Society of Ontario (JHSO) has been raising concerns about the disclosure of non-conviction information on police record checks. Routinely, through police record checks...

June 3, 2015 10:10 A.M. Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services Police record checks are often used as part of the screening process for various purposes, including but not limited to employment, volunteering, education, professional licensing, rental housing, insurance, adoption, chi...

(SAULT STE MARIE, ON) – The director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Tony Loparco, has reasonable grounds to believe that a former Sault Ste Marie Police Service officer committed criminal offences, in relation to incidents involving multiple males, over a six year period in the 1980s. Dir...

'The pain inflicted ... by the crash and the drawn-out court case has left a huge impact,' widow says A dentist from Pembroke, Ont., has been found guilty of impaired driving causing death and dangerous driving causing death after a trial that lasted nearly three years. Justice Neil Kozloff ruled t...

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A prominent Pembroke dentist who drank and drove before killing a father of three is now staring down a lengthy prison term after a judge found her guilty of impaired and dangerous driving causing death. After a marathon trial that spanned nearly three years and featured the best team of defence law...

Victim's family 'will never forget pain' caused by Pembroke dentist Despite 55 intense trial days, Charter challenges and accusations of police bungling, Pembroke dentist Dr. Christy Natsis was convicted of causing the death of Bryan Casey. Judge Neil Kozloff convicted her Friday of impaired drivin...

Divisional court ruling means rights body can award damages even in cases also probed by civilian police watchdog "This decision recognizes that these two distinct streams don’t offer an individual who has been the victim of alleged police misconduct the same remedy,” said Roger Love of the Af...

SIU says allegations date back to 1980s, when officer was working in Sault Ste. Marie An Ontario Provincial Police officer is facing nine charges in the alleged sexual assaults of four people in the 1980s. The charges against Const. David Scott were laid after an investigation by Ontario's police w...

An OPP officer has been charged with incidents allegedly committed as a Sault Ste. Marie police officer in the 1980s. A Sudbury Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer is facing criminal charges, including sexual assault, after a Special Investigations Unit (SIU) investigation into offences he alle...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. -- An Ontario Provincial Police officer is accused of sexually assaulting four male victims in the 1980s. Const. David Scott, of the OPP's Espanola Satellite Office in Sudbury, is charged with two counts indecent assault, three counts sexual assault and four counts gross indec...

An Ontario Provincial Police officer faces charges in connection with alleged sexual assaults dating back to the 1980s. In February, the province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) was contacted by the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service after an allegation was made against the officer who was formally...

SAULT STE MARIE, Ont. – An Ontario Provincial Police officer is facing nine charges in the alleged sexual assaults of four people in the 1980s. The charges against Const. David Scott were laid after an investigation by Ontario’s police watchdog. The Special Investigations Unit says it was contacted ...

In the fall of 2013, a teenage girl went to the police – she was underage, and she told officers she had had sex with Shayne Lund. But she said she only went to police because Lund asked her for naked pictures of her little sister, who was about 9-years-old. The teenager testified that she told Lund...