Ontario Provincial Police Block

Constable Troy Bender pleaded guilty to careless driving in connection with an incident in which a woman died after the police cruiser she was in collided with a tractor-trailer near Kenora. (Megan Benedictson/CBC) A northwestern Ontario OPP officer charged under the Police Services Act after a fata...

NORTH GLENGARRY, Ont. – Ontario Provincial Police have charged two of their own after an investigation into the disclosure of private information in eastern Ontario. The force says they were tipped off in summer 2012 about the alleged disclosure by an officer, with the investigation finding offences...

Two Ontario Provincial Police officers were charged Tuesday after an investigation into an allegation that an officer was disclosing private information. The investigation, under the direction Det.-Insp. Paul Yelle of the criminal investigation branch and professional standards bureau, looked into i...

Two OPP officers in Alexandria, Ont., have been charged with breach of trust after investigators received a tip an officer was disclosing private information. Ontario Provincial Police said they received information two years ago about offences that were alleged to have occurred between 2009 and 201...

Two OPP officers are facing criminal charges in relation to alleged offences that occurred between 2009 and 2014. During the summer of 2012, information was provided to investigators that an OPP officer was disclosing private information, according to a press release issued Tuesday evening. As a res...

OHRC Troubled By Accusations Of Racial Profiling In Vienna Sexual Assault Case The Ontario Human Rights Commission says it has expressed concerns about alleged racial profiling by the OPP to the Office of the Independent Police Review Director. The OIPRD is currently reviewing the OPP’s practices f...

Allegations of racial profiling of migrant workers troubling: OHRC TORONTO, July 17, 2014 /CNW/ - The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) took another step to eliminate racial profiling in Ontario by speaking out in the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) systemic review of ...

Ottawa OPP officer charged with shoplifting, resisting arrest at Walmart Ottawa OPP Const. Dennis Hill won’t be patrolling the Queensway any time soon after his own police force arrested him while he was on medical leave for rehab. Hill’s leave took a rapid turn on June 22, when police allege he tr...

Dennis Hill, 37, a Constable in the eastern region Ontario Provincial Police has been charged with one count of theft under $5,000 and one count of resisting arrest. On June 22, an investigation was initiated as result of an incident that occurred at the Wal-Mart in Carlton Place. Hill was accused a...

An Ottawa OPP officer has been charged with theft and resisting arrest after an incident at a Walmart in Carleton Place, Ont., last month. Ontario Provincial Police say they laid the charges after an investigation by the members of the OPP Professional Standards Bureau. Dennis Hill, 37, has been cha...

EXCLUSIVE: Vaughan MP Fantino firing of First Nations police chief not racism, court rules An Ontario court has upheld a human rights tribunal ruling that the firing of a First Nations police chief without a hearing by then-OPP commissioner Julian Fantino had nothing to do with the man’s aboriginal...

After two weeks of pre-trial in June, a judge will speak to the case of OPP Const. Kara Darnley in a Barrie courtroom on July 28. Darnley, of the Huronia West OPP detachment in Wasaga Beach, was arrested and charged Wednesday, July 4, 2012. She was charged with Obstruct Justice, three counts of Crim...

A Northwest Region OPP officer has been charged in conjunction with an alleged domestic assault. The officer, who isn’t being named by police in order to protect the victim, was charged with one count of assault and one count of sexual assault. The officer, who was not assigned to frontline duties w...

The Ontario Provincial Police has charged one of its own officers in the northwestern Ontario region with assault and sexual assault. In a news release Wednesday, the OPP said the charges stem from an investigation into a domestic-related incident. According to police, the officer does not work on f...

A trial will be held later this year for a former Napanee provincial police officer charged with fraud and other offenses. Wayne Burrows was charged by the Professional Standards Bureau last August with theft under $5,000, fraud under $5,000 and possession of property obtained by crime. The 30 year ...