Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared an OPP tactical officer who fired a less-lethal weapon at a knife-wielding man during a standoff at a Seaforth home four months ago. Ontario Provincial Police were called on Dec. 20 around 3:30 p.m. to a domestic disturbance at a Seaforth home where a resident asked police to remove a […]
Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared London police of wrongdoing in the death of a senior who jumped from the balcony of his apartment six days before Christmas. Two police officers were sent to an apartment building near Southdale Road and Pomeroy Lane in southwest London on Dec. 19 shortly after 1 p.m. to apprehend a […]
A driver fleeing from provincial police was responsible for a crash that killed him and seriously injured two others four months ago, Ontario’s police watchdog says
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating a two-vehicle crash involving a suspected stolen vehicle southwest of London that sent one person to hospital. Middlesex OPP were investigating an incident involving a suspected stolen vehicle on Melbourne Road, just southeast of Melbourne, at approximately 7:20 a.m. Saturday, police said. The vehicle was then involved in a two-vehicle […]
New evidence has delayed a coroner's inquest into the 2019 death of a woman held in London police custody.
Ontario’s parole enforcement unit is looking for a man wanted on a Canada-wide arrest warrant who has ties to London and Sarnia. The OPP-led repeat offender parole enforcement (ROPE) squad is asking the public for help locating Joshua Gray, 44, who is serving a nearly seven-year sentence for armed robbery, drug possession for the purpose […]
Ontario SIU has ended a probe into a woman’s fentanyl overdose while in provincial police custody, the province’s police watchdog says.
London police should create better raid procedures to account for the presence of children and the mental health history of people inside a home, a coroner’s inquest jury says.
Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared a London police officer of criminal wrongdoing for using a Taser to “incapacitate” a woman in distress
An informal resolution was reached in a professional misconduct case against a Stratford police officer at the centre of a $3-million lawsuit, the city's police chief says.
A coroner’s inquest into the death of a hatchet-wielding London man killed during a 2016 police raid on his Old South home is set to begin Monday morning. A five-person jury will examine the circumstances surrounding the death of Samuel Maloney, 35, who was fatally shot by police after firing a crossbow at an officer […]
A Stratford man whose tooth was knocked out when he was arrested by Stratford police officers alleges they used excessive force and had no right to detain him, according to a recently filed lawsuit. Kyle Nicholson, 36, launched a $3-million lawsuit against the Stratford police board and five officers – four constables and one sergeant […]