Ontario Provincial Police Block

(RED LAKE, ON) – On May 11, officers from Red Lake OPP were conducting a RIDE check on Highway 125, just west of Dellenor Road, in Red Lake. At approximately 11:05 pm officers checked a vehicle and discovered the driver had been drinking. The driver provided a breath sample into the roadside screeni...

An Ontario Provincial Police collision expert said Monday that he had missed three errors in another officer’s report on the fatal collision that killed Ottawa father of three Bryan Casey more than three years ago. But Const. Robert Kern denied he had any bias because of his working relationship wit...

Red Lake, Ont. -- A recent police RIDE checkpoint led to one of their own officers being charged in this Northwestern Ontario town. Officials with the OPP say they set up the RIDE checkpoint on Highway 125, just west of Dellenor Road in Red Lake. That led to the arrest of OPP Const. Caitlyn Van Stra...

The long-running drunk driving trial of Pembroke dentist Christy Natsis will resume Monday morning. Natsis is charged with impaired driving causing death, driving with a blood-alcohol level over the legal limit, and dangerous driving causing death in a crash on March 31, 2011, near Arnprior that kil...

Earlier today, officers from Red Lake OPP were conducting a RIDE check on Hwy. 125 just west of Dellenor Road in Red Lake. At approximately 11:05 p.m. officers checked a vehicle and discovered the driver had been drinking. The driver provided a breath sample into the roadside screening device and re...

Roke inquest recommends police Tasers, better training in mental health issues Matthew Roke, 33, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, died in May 2012 after he was shot in Maitland, just east of Belleville, when he approached Ontario Provincial Police officers with a knife. A coroner’s jury ha...

MIDHURST, Ont. — A police officer who shot and killed Douglas Minty had to make a life or death decision when the mentally-disabled man came at him with a knife, an inquest jury heard Wednesday. The inquest is delving into the death of Minty, 59, of Elmvale, Ont. The distraught Minty was shot five t...

The coroner’s inquest into the 2009 death of Douglas Minty continued today in Midhurst. In June 2009, 59-year-old Doug Minty, a developmentally challenged man, was shot by police outside of his Elmvale home. The OPP were called to the home after receiving a 9-1-1 call from a door to door salesman wh...

More police training to deal with people suffering a mental health crisis and a review of discharge plans from mental health facilities are two main points a jury tasked with making recommendations from a coroner's inquest will ponder. On Monday, the five-member jury into Matthew Roke's death heard ...

KIRKLAND LAKE - The Kirkland Lake OPP officer who was under investigation for the use of a Conducted Energy Weapon (taser) during the arrest of a man outside Billy's Sports Bar and Grill on Government Road in Kirkland Lake has been cleared of any wrong doing by the OPP Professional Standards Branch....

Coun. Patrick Kehoe, a member of Orillia's police services board, says proposed changes to the OPP's billing model doesn't address arbitrated wage increases. Proposed changes to the OPP’s billing model are a “Band-Aid” solution to the problem of rising policing costs, local police board member Patr...

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One should be cautious when having dealings with this officer for if he can readily lie within a protected environment (within the policing circles) what is stopping him from lying in his interaction with the public.

OPP Constable Jeff Seguin shot Douglas Minty, an intellectually challenged 59-year-old, five times. Shortly after the constable arrived, Minty moved toward him holding a small pocketknife. Was the knife blade extended, or folded into its metallic casing? OPP Constable Jeff Seguin shot Douglas Minty...

Supreme Court bars lawyers from coaching police in writing notes for SIU probe Canada’s top court upholds a ruling that officers can’t have lawyers vet incident reports before they’re submitted to the Special Investigations Unit. Ruth Schaeffer and Evelyn Minty’s four-year legal battle ended in vic...