Ontario Provincial Police Block

The Ontario Provincial Police utilized a spike belt to stop a thief who stole a police cruiser from the South Porcupine OPP Detachment in Matheson. Around 3:30 a.m. the stolen cruiser was located and followed by police to a location just west of Matheson. The officers utilized a spike belt device wh...

MATHESON, ONT.—The OPP has found its stolen police cruiser. The South Porcupine detachment in Matheson realized on Saturday that one of its black-and-white Ford Crown Victoria squad cars was missing. Police say they spotted the cruiser around 3:30 a.m. Sunday and began following it. They set up a sp...

Man charged with alleged theft of black-and-white OPP cruiser The OPP has found its stolen police cruiser. The South Porcupine detachment in Matheson realized on Saturday that one of its black-and-white Ford Crown Victoria squad cars was missing. Police say they spotted the cruiser around 3:30 a.m....

Original 1 a.m. release - OPP cruiser stolen MATHESON - On Saturday March 21, 2015, the South Porcupine Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) located in Matheson, Ontario, discovered that one of their cruisers was unaccounted for. As a result of an immediate and ongoing investigation, t...

The reputation of Ontario’s provincial police force has taken a battering in recent years and deservedly so TORONTO - Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Vince Hawkes urged the public to have faith in the integrity of the force’s three ongoing investigations into Ontario’s Liberal government and...

Ramara Township residents can expect their taxes to go up about 4.75% in 2015. An increase in the cost of the provincial police and a reduction in a provincial grant are behind about half of that hike, said treasurer Margaret Black. Ramara’s total tax rate was about 1% before, Black said, so for eve...

Do police have the right to videotape you using a toilet? It turns out they do — if you’re in custody, according to several — but not all — recent Ontario court decisions. But regardless of which way these cases land, they’re already changing the way police deal with prisoners. It’s a case of safety...

Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Vince Hawkes understands the OPP has a huge problem of public perception on its hands because of the actions of its police union. That’s why he emphasized in an interview with Sun Queen’s Park columnist Christina Blizzard Wednesday that those actions have not i...

All twenty of the Ontario Provincial Police union’s branch presidents have voted to charge three of its top officials with bylaw violations following explosive RCMP allegations against the former president, vice-president and the chief administrative officer, according to a communiqué sent to member...

TORONTO - Don’t confuse the OPP with the union that looks after cops’ benefits, says OPP Commissioner Vince Hawkes. His warning comes shortly after he suspended executives at the Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA) from the force with pay. Det. Sgt. Jim Christie, Const. Martin Bain, and Con...

BARRIE—Officers from the RCMP executed a search warrant at the head office of the OPP Association (OPPA) in Barrie on Friday, March 6. The RCMP were conducting a criminal investigation and apparently believed that evidence to support that investigation could be found in the OPPA head office as well ...

Could Bill C-377, the union transparency act, have prevented the shocking corruption probe involving Ontario Provincial Police union staffers? MP Jeff Watson thinks so. The controversial C-377 – deeply hated by organized labour, which accuses the federal government of “attacking” unions with the bi...

CFN – Fascinating. Looking at the search warrants laid against now former OPPA President Karl Walsh an alleged potential money trail leads to distant lands where banking is a bit friendlier than here in Canada. Theft, Criminal Breach of Trust, Fraud, Laundering the Proceeds of Crime, Fraudulent Conc...

Central figure in RCMP investigation started with local detachment Karl Walsh, who was fired over the weekend as the CAO of the Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA) by its board of directors, and suspended from duty by the OPP pending the outcome of the RCMP investigation, entered the provi...

Three OPP officers — all once high-ranking members of the Ontario Provincial Police Association — have been suspended from the force with pay, according to the OPP. Det.-Sgt. Jim Christie, Const. Martin Bain, and Const. Karl Walsh were ordered suspended from duty by OPP Commissioner Vince Hawkes thi...