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HEARST - The Ontario Provincial Police in Hearst reported Tuesday that one of its vehicles was involved in a collision near Hearst Friday night. Shortly before 11 p.m. on Friday, officers from the OPP Hearst detachment responded to a collision involving a police vehicle and a pickup truck at the int...

While deeply distressing stories percolate up from south of the border of rampant, unpunished, racist police violence across the United States, Canada is hardly immune from the arbitrary and shocking violence and aggression directed by police officers at entirely innocent people. Violence and abuse ...

MALLORYTOWN - A letter going to the Ontario Provincial Police will complain about local detachment officers’ alleged bad driving habits as they patrol Front of Yonge township. The idea for the letter came from councillor Gail Williams, who said she has heard several stories from her constituents in ...

Officers’ complaints draw Ministry of Labour orders on Pelee Island The Ministry of Labour has slapped the Ontario Provincial Police with four orders as it continues its investigation into complaints by officers assigned to work on Pelee Island. Among the orders is that the OPP must conduct a “risk...

OPP snaps up new Tasers, but not camera add-ons despite calls for officer accountability Since July 17, the day Eric Garner was killed by police in New York City, Taser International Inc. has been on a tear. The company’s value has shot up 148.19% in the five months since officers were caught on vi...

‘Good Samaritan’ from Orillia acquitted; continues to fight for justice In a case even the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) calls rare, a judge had some harsh words for an OPP Sergeant who claimed that he had been assaulted by an Orillia woman – charges that have been thrown out. Tonie Farrell, 48,...

Judge rules it was the officer who assaulted the victim and not the other way around. (Orillia) - Charges have been dropped against a woman in Orillia who had been accused of assaulting a police officer. The judge in the case says it was the officer who attacked Maria 'Tonie' Farrell, leaving her w...

ORILLIA - The lawyer representing a woman who a judge found was karate-kicked and beaten by an OPP officer is crying out to the province’s police watchdog to launch a criminal investigation. “My client has been permanently maimed,” said Barrie lawyer Angela McLeod, who wants the Special Investigatio...

ORILLIA - A 49-year-old-grandmother who was acting as a "Good Samaritan" was karate-kicked, sucker-punched, beaten and left with "catastrophic injuries" by a police officer, a judge said Tuesday. It has been two long years since Maria "Tonie" Farrell was charged with as...

OPP Constable Jamie Porto Facing Charge of Dangerous Driving Causing Bodily Harm SIU DEC 16, 2014 The Director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Tony Loparco, has reasonable grounds to believe that an officer with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Lakeshore Detachment, committed a crimin...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- The province's police watchdog has charged an Ontario Provincial Police officer with dangerous driving in connection with a crash near Windsor, Ont., that seriously injured a 20-year-old man. The Special Investigations Unit says the incident occurred on Oct. 24 when an OPP cruis...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - The province's police watchdog has charged an Ontario Provincial Police officer with dangerous driving in connection with a crash near Windsor, Ont., that seriously injured a 20-year-old man. The Special Investigations Unit says the incident occurred on Oct. 24 when an OPP cruise...

A Lakeshore OPP officer is facing a dangerous driving charge after a collision involving a police cruiser, according to Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit. SIU director Tony Loparco says there are reasonable grounds to believe that the officer committed a criminal offence in relation to the vehic...

A Lakeshore OPP officer is facing a charge of dangerous driving causing bodily harm as a result of a crash with a civilian vehicle in St. Joachim this fall. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit announced on Tuesday that it has determined there are reasonable grounds to charge Const. Jamie Porto of ...

A Lakeshore, Ont. police officer has been charged with dangerous driving causing bodily harm by the Ontario Provincial Police's Special Investigations Unit (SIU). In October, the officer was driving an OPP cruiser on County Road 42 in St. Joachim when it collided with another vehicle. The driver of ...