Ontario Provincial Police Block

Overall, West Parry Sound region to see $2.3 million hike WEST PARRY SOUND – The new OPP billing model has been described as “fair” and “equitable for all municipalities,” however, West Parry Sound will be paying an additional $2.3 million over the next five years. The new OPP billing model was ann...

NIAGARA - Now is not the time to start making officers wear body cameras, says Niagara Regional Police Chief Jeff McGuire. Not because he doesn't agree they can be an effective tool – but because more preparation needs to happen before a program is rolled out locally. The NRP has set aside $250,000 ...

ALMAGUIN – The new OPP billing model is supposed to make funding fair, but with the Almaguin Highlands detachment total bill set to increase more than $1.4 million over the next five years, it’s hard to find the fairness. Minister Yasir Naqvi of the ministry of community safety and correctional serv...

A Chatham-Kent OPP provincial constable may be lucky to have walked away with only minor injuries caused when his police vehicle rolled several times and crashed north of Chatham Monday night. Chatham-Kent OPP Const. Janine Belanger said an OPP officer on patrol had turned around to follow a vehicle...

An officer with the Chatham-Kent OPP suffered minor injuries Feb. 9 after the cruiser he was in rolled over several times while in pursuit of a vehicle on Pioneer Line. The incident occurred shortly after 9 p.m. when the officer was travelling on Park Avenue and saw a vehicle approaching him at a hi...

TIMMINS - While the Town of Cochrane has come out ahead on the issue of policing costs, Cochrane Mayor Peter Politis will continue to lobby the province for a more equitable cost formula for smaller communities. Politis made the comments Friday at the winter meeting of the Northeastern Ontario Munic...

Two SDG OPP officers continued their journey through the court system last week. Constables Luanne MacDonald and John Bernard, of the Alexandria detachment, were told in Alexandria court to make another appearance on March 4 in regards to their alleged involvement of secretly taping a naked person a...

ALMAGUIN – Talk of the Almaguin Highlands Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) costs has raised some concerns from our local Parliament representatives. Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller said the increase has been a problem for a few years. “It’s been a big issue for a couple of years now,” he said. “T...

ALMAGUIN – The effects of the new OPP billing model — good and bad — are being seen across the region as municipalities begin their 2015 budgeting process. Of the 12 townships served by the Almaguin Highlands OPP detachment, three are experiencing a decrease or remaining the same for 2015 and nine a...

ALMAGUIN – Whitestone isn’t the only municipality in the region dealing with increased OPP costs. The estimated costs for services provided by the Almaguin Highlands Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) for 2019 totals $2.7 million, up from $1.9 estimated for 2014. Including the municipalities under cont...

A 31-year-veteran member of the OPP was charged with "turn not in safety" for his role in a two vehicle collision involving his cruiser and a pick-truck Friday afternoon. Nottawasaga OPP reported this morning the accident happened at noon, on Hwy 89 and Cty Rd 56. "The collision occur...

ALLISTON - A Nottawasaga OPP officer has been charged in a two-vehicle crash that happened last week on Highway 89 east of Alliston. The crash happened around noon Friday, Feb. 13 at County Road 56 at the bottom of Sharp’s Hill. Police said a cruiser drove into a white Dodge Ram pickup truck while t...

Two paramedics and a Lambton College student were in an ambulance which was hit by an OPP SUV on Egermont Road after leaving the scene. Lambton OPP are saying little about an accident involving one of their vehicles on Egermont Road. Sources say during yesterday’s white out conditions an OPP SUV ra...

No one can be expected to cope with cost increases in the 300 per cent range – whether private sector, homeowner, or public sector. To learn our provincial decision-makers have, with basically the stroke of a pen, forced a cost increase of 329 per cent on the Municipality of Whitestone and its taxpa...

BRANTFORD Two Ontario Provincial Police officers have been charged in connection with a crash last fall that lead to the death of an 18-year-old Brantford woman. The Brant OPP officers were charged Tuesday night by the Special Investigations Unit, which investigates reports involving police where th...