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A man who went into Victoria Hospital’s emergency room under a hail of gunfire last month was one of three Londoners charged in the fatal shooting of a Brampton woman in 2020, The London Free Press has learned. Court documents identify Abdulla Kaddoura, 32, as the man targeted in two connected shootings on Dec. 14 […]
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London police officers will be equipped with a new piece of long-awaited technology starting Monday. The force’s $4.2-million program to outfit its 326 frontline officers – constables, sergeants and staff sergeants – with body cameras officially kicks off after months of preparation. The program, included in the four-year, $672-million budget approved by city council last […]
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Southwest Londoners are petitioning for safer streets after a boy was struck and killed after getting off a school bus near Lambeth, as one school safety advocate says students are at increased risk on rural roads.
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The cache of guns and illicit drugs displayed at London police headquarters is evidence the city is becoming safer, the police chief says. The 19 guns and drugs valued at more than $8.4 million – including 14 kilograms of cocaine and 16.9 kilograms of fentanyl – were seized in investigations
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London police made the city's largest-ever seizure of fentanyl after arresting a second suspect in a shooting at a London public housing building, police say.
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London’s police chief recently travelled to Ottawa to meet with a hate-crime researcher who accused police of mishandling her complaint about being targeted in an alleged racist attack while attending the sentencing of Nathaniel Veltman earlier this year.
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The jump in opioid pills hitting London’s streets started when several pharmacies began dispensing them, the health unit says, a finding that suggests federal Conservatives and other critics targeting the older Safer Opioid Supply (SOS) program are missing the mark. “There was a notable increase in hydromorphone prescribing from 2023