Area town’s main street evacuated amid police probe

EXETER – Several homes and businesses here were evacuated Friday, or the people inside them told to “shelter in place,” during a large police probe that shut down two of the Huron County town’s streets. The increased police presence in Exeter, part of an Ontario Provincial Police investigation, continued Friday afternoon with officers warning citizens […]

South Bruce OPP has new detachment manager

Staff Sergeant Deb McClure has assumed responsibility for policing operations in three municipal contracts and two municipal non-contract locations as Detachment Manager with the South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment. McClure began her career with the Toronto Police Service in 2002. In 2005, she transferred to the Orangeville Police Service where she worked in […]

OPP youth program bridges gap between teens, police

If you’re a teenager who wants to know some of the ins and outs about policing and don’t mind spending more time in a classroom after school hours, Ontario Provincial Police’s youth program might be for you. For Oxford County OPP, the Youth Citizen Police Academy offers the police force the chance to promote the […]

More checkpoints mean more charges for OPP’s RIDE campaign

More checkpoints meant more charges this year for the Ontario Provincial Police’s annual enforcement campaign targeting drunk drivers. Police across the province recently wrapped up the festive season’s Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) campaign which ran from Nov. 16, 2023, until January 1, 2024. Across the OPP’s west region, officers conducted 2,446 RIDE events, laid […]

Police seize pickup truck linked to hit-and-run that killed teenage boy

Investigators have seized a pickup truck they believe is linked to a hit-and-run crash that killed a 14-year-old boy in rural Southwestern Ontario, police say. But in an usual twist, the Ontario Provincial Police said that while the driver had been “positively identified,” they had not yet been located as of Sunday afternoon. “I’d personally […]

Pedestrian, 14, killed in rural hit-and-run: Police

Police are appealing to the public for help finding a pickup truck that struck and killed a 14-year-old boy in rural Norfolk County. Ontario Provincial Police say emergency crews were called at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to an address on Fairground Road in Cultus, a rural community not far from Lake Erie, southeast of London, […]

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