Ontario Provincial Police Block

Two Brant county OPP officers are facing criminal charges in connection with a deadly crash in Brantford last October. The province’s special investigations unit says the charges include dangerous driving causing death, and criminal negligence causing death. Four months after her death, tributes to ...

Renfrew Mayor Don Eady says, the Ontario Provincial Police costs 22 per cent of the town’s budget, and he has his concerns. “This is something that has been uploaded onto municipalities that is becoming very quickly, totally unaffordable. “When you look at 22 per cent of your budget going to one as...

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 that our provincial decision-makers will, with basically the stroke of a pen, force a cost increase of 329% on the Municipality of Whitestone and its taxpayers ...

(BRANTFORD, ON) – The Director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Tony Loparco, has reasonable grounds to believe that two officers with the OPP’s Brant detachment committed criminal offences in relation to the death of 18 year-old Ashley Lerno, in October of 2014. Director Loparco has caused...

Police in Chatham-Kent are looking for a vehicle following a roll-over involving an OPP cruiser. It happened around 9 Monday night. The cruiser was on Park Street when officers saw a vehicle coming in their direction at a high rate of speed. Police tried to stop the vehicle but the cruiser left the ...

Cops charged in teen’s death after stolen truck blows past RIDE stop BRANTFORD, Ont. — Two Brant County cops are facing charges after a stolen pickup truck avoided a RIDE checkpoint and was involved in a crash that killed an 18-year-old woman. Ashley Lerno died last October after the vehicle she wa...

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...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- The province's police watchdog says two provincial police officers are facing charges following an investigation into the death of an 18-year-old woman last October. The Special Investigations Unit says officers were conducting a RIDE program in Burford, Ont., on Oct. 10, 2014, ...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - The province's police watchdog says two provincial police officers are facing charges following an investigation into the death of an 18-year-old woman last October. The Special Investigations Unit says officers were conducting a RIDE program in Burford, Ont., on Oct. 10, 2014, w...

Two OPP officers charged after SIU investigation into Brantford car accident OPP officers Cons. Craig McMurtrie and Const. Rodney Donald Grubb have been charged in relation with the death of 18-year-old Ashley Lerno. Two Ontario Provincial Police officers have been charged with criminal negligence ...

WHITESTONE – If how much a municipality’s OPP costs are increasing under the new billing model were a sport, Whitestone would get the gold medal. The municipality received its estimated policing bill for 2015 and the increase is nothing short of astronomical. In 2014, Whitestone paid roughly $101,0...

New billing model doubles costs for township’s policing, drives hike BURK’S FALLS – The cost of policing discussed at Armour’s first budget meeting could only be described as the “OPP shock.” Armour Reeve Bob MacPhail said the first meeting was to learn what was going on within the township, and th...

OPP Association President says they want another increase in new contract. (Regional) - The head of the provincial police union says the government's goal of net zero sum in contract talks is "unrealistic.'' OPP Association President Jim Christie says they will "absolutely'' be looking fo...

An OPP officer suffered minor injuries after a cruiser hit a snowbank in Georgian Bay Township early Friday morning. It happened just after 2:15 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Highway 400, between Georgian Bay Road and Crooked Bay Road. Police say the cruiser was responding to a call when the vehic...

OPP officer stranded for 15 minutes on side of Hwy. 400 after crashing cruiser An OPP officer was sent to hospital early on Friday after crashing his cruiser north of Port Severn. It happened around 2:30 a.m. on the northbound Highway 400 near Joe Kings Road. He lost control of his car and hit the ...