Ontario Free Press
(PEMBROKE, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) 2024 Festive R.I.D.E. (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) campaign commenced on November 21, 2024, and continued until January 1, 2025. During the sixth week of the campaign from December 26 to January 1, 2025, officers from the Upper Ottawa Valley Detachment of the OPP conducted 33 RIDE checks throughout the […]
(MULMUR, ON) – Members of the Dufferin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has charged an Etobicoke resident with impaired operation related offences as the result of a single motor vehicle collision. On January 6, 2025, at approximately 1:20 a.m., Dufferin OPP officers were dispatched to the area of County Road 19 in the Township […]
(KINGSVILLE, ON)- Driver facing charges after two-vehicle collision in Kingsville. On January 2, 2025, at 7:19 p.m., members of the Kingsville Detachment Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were dispatched to Road 2 East, Town of Kingsville, for the report of a two-vehicle collision. The driver of one of the involved vehicles was arrested and transported to a […]
DRPS completed its sixth and final week of the 2024 Festive RIDE program, stopping more than 1,600 vehicles and charging 19 drivers with impaired driving offences. This week, the RIDE team was joined by DRPS Auxiliary officers who assisted on the RIDE line. On New Year’s Eve our team checked nearly 500 cars for sobriety […]
(NORFOLK COUNTY, ON) – Two individuals have been charged following separate impaired driving incidents. At approximately 1:27 p.m. on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Norfolk County responded to a 9-1-1 call reporting a suspected impaired driver on Talbot Street in Courtland, Norfolk County. Officers located the vehicle on Main Street […]
(NORTHUMBERLAND, ON) – The Northumberland Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have laid a number of charges in unrelated incidents of impaired driving. On January 1, 2025, at approximately 1:10 a.m., police received a call from a member of the public regarding a single vehicle motor vehicle collision on Grills Road in the Township of […]
(Orangeville, ON) – The Dufferin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have charged a driver with impaired operation related offences on the first day of the new year. On January 1, 2025, just before 8:00 p.m., officers from Dufferin OPP received a complainant of a driver asleep behind the wheel in the Town of […]
(GREY BRUCE, ON) – Four drivers are facing impaired driving charges between December 24, 2024, and January 1, 2025. On December 24, 2024, at 5:48 p.m., the Grey Bruce OPP responded to a traffic complaint of an impaired driver on Meadowland Road in South Bruce Peninsula. Ashley Siegrist, 29 years-old, of South Bruce Peninsula was charged with: […]
A potential tragedy was likely averted after a concerned member of the community contacted police just prior to Christmas to report what appeared to be a passed-out driver. Upon arrival at an industrial plaza parking lot located on Anne Street South, south of Tiffin Street, police located the driver in question asleep in the driver’s […]
(CENTRAL HURON, ON) – Huron County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has charged a Central Huron resident with a criminal driving offence following a traffic hazard complaint on December 23, 2024, in the Municipality of Central Huron. Just after 10:45 p.m., on Monday, December 23, 2024, Huron County OPP officers were contacted regarding a school bus that […]