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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/03/20/off-duty-cop-nailed-in-ticket-blitz?channelColor=news Temps are soaring and so are speedometers. A 68-minute blitz by Ottawa police Tuesday, their first of the season, nabbed 13 speeders including an off-duty cop on a motorcycle clocked going 202 km/h heading eastbound on Hwy. 174. Yannik Bernard faces a charge of stunt driving under the Highway Traffic Act. The […]
MoreOttawa police have nabbed a Toronto-area man for allegedly stealing thousands of X-rays from across Ontario while posing as an employee of a recycling company. The total count isn’t known but cops estimate it ranges from 25,000 to 30,000 X-rays. “It’s looking like it could be fairly extensive,” said Ottawa police Staff Sgt. Kevin McCaffery. […]
MoreCorporate culture telling Ottawa’s overworked cops to “just suck it up and get it done” has been eating away at morale, according to documents obtained by the Sun through an Access to Information request. Excerpts from the report read like an episode of the HBO hit show The Wire. “They have too many political agendas,” […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/01/25/cop-facing-hiring-crisis-prof With baby boomers retiring, fewer jobs will be up for grabs for police across the country, who didn’t hire at the end of the ’90s and early 2000s, warns a Carleton University business professor. “A lot of our older cops are going to be leaving all at once,” said Dr. Linda Duxbury, […]
MoreCops investigating murders and sex crimes are stressed out and face heavy workloads, resulting in increased use of sick leave and higher alcohol consumption, according to a study analyzing Ottawa’s police force. It’s also resulting in them being less loyal and less engaged in their work, The news doesn’t come as a surprise to Ottawa […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/12/20/cops-bust-illegal-workers-in-ottawa-gatineau The Canada Border Services Agency raided eight shopping centres in Ottawa and Gatineau Monday, arresting 30 suspected illegal workers — 15 in each city — at kiosks selling beauty products. A booth called Seacret is set up on the main floor at Bayshore, and witnesses tell the Sun they saw one man […]
MoreAn Ottawa woman who pleaded guilty to killing her boyfriend’s dog will spend three months in jail and is banned from owning a pet for 12 years. Abir Hamade was sentenced on Oct. 28 for two counts of animal cruelty — unlawfully killing an animal and causing an animal unnecessary pain and suffering — following […]
MoreSEE VIDEO: http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/10/28/some-parents-spooked-by-sex-offenders-on-halloween Judging by city laws in the U.S., there’s nothing scarier than letting registered sex offenders hand out candy to kids on Halloween. Several counties in Virginia are taking part in an initiative dubbed Operation Porch Lights Out, which bans pedophiles from distributing candy, decorating their homes, turning their porch lights on, even […]
MoreOttawa police are investigating another overnight fire in Stittsville early Wednesday –the west Ottawa community’s fifth suspicious blaze since September. Fire crews got the call at 12:40 a.m. for a blaze at Hobin St. and Pullman Ave., near A. Lorne Cassidy Elementary School. A small amount of garbage put out for collection — rolled up […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/09/14/stittsville-school-fire-probed John Cutland heard about a portable being razed at his school in Stittsville around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning. “But I had no idea it was my homeroom,” said the grade 12 student at Sacred Heart Catholic High School. “It was a portable for Mr. White. He teaches philosophy.” A 911 call came […]
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