New gun-offence database will make London safer: Police chief

New gun-offence database will make London safer: Police chief
London Free Press
London police soon will have a new tool to help combat gun violence and prevent crime, the city’s top cop says.
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Letters: A (new year’s) nod to Guy Lombardo; a plea for peace in 2025

Letters: A (new year’s) nod to Guy Lombardo; a plea for peace in 2025
London Free Press
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians deserve to be recognized in London and celebrated with pride.
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London police notch another perfect year for clearing homicides

London Free Press
London police laid charges in all of the city’s homicides in 2024, the sixth straight year the force has achieved a perfect clearance rate for killings. There were six homicides last year in London, down from eight the previous year, and just below the 10-year average of 6.2 deaths per
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London police release photos of suspect vehicle in hospital shooting

London Free Press
London police have released photographs of a suspect vehicle linked to two shootings, one of them outside the emergency room at Victoria Hospital, over the weekend.
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Man hurt in shooting outside London hospital’s emergency room: Police

London Free Press
A man was in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a shooting outside of a London hospital emergency room early Saturday, police say. London police responded to a shooting at London Health Sciences Centre’s Victoria Hospital emergency room at about 2:30 a.m., police said in a news release on Saturday morning
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Five Londoners charged in crackdown on Hamilton street gang

London Free Press
Five Londoners are among two dozen people charged amid a crackdown on a Hamilton street gang linked to shootings across southern Ontario, police say.
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The pandemic is long over. One advocate says parents still can’t go in some schools

London Free Press
Head of the Thames Valley Council of Home and School Associations says some principals are still prohibiting parents and volunteers from going back into London-area public schools.
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At least one Canadian police officer fires their gun per week: Study

London Free Press
At least one Canadian police officer fires their gun at a civilian every week, on average, highlighting the need for a national database tracking police-involved shootings, according to new research. Read More
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Man shot by OPP officer facing attempted murder charge

London Free Press
A man who was shot by an OPP officer last week in Seaforth is charged with attempted murder and other offences. Read More
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Woman linked to police shooting remains at large, may be badly hurt: Police

London Free Press
A suspect who fled the scene after police shot a man in Seaforth last week – sparking a search that continued as of Tuesday morning – may be seriously injured, provincial police say. Read More
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Pink-haired woman recalls mistaken arrest in hospital amid shooting probe

London Free Press
Crystal Boa says she was sitting in the Clinton hospital emergency room Wednesday morning when a man showed up saying he’d been shot. Read More
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Local town's schools in lockdown after shooting

London Free Press
CLINTON – Schools in this small Huron County town were put in lockdown early Wednesday afternoon after reports of a shooting. Read More
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