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OACP and GM OnStar Canada Honour WRPS’s Backpack Challenge with Heroes Beyond the Badge Award

Media Release

Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police and General Motors OnStar Canada
Honour Waterloo Regional Police Service’s Backpack Challenge with Heroes Beyond the Badge Award 

For Immediate Release: October 23, 2023

(Cambridge, ON) – The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) and General Motors OnStar Canada are pleased to announce that the Waterloo Regional Police Service’s annual Backpack Challenge has been awarded the Heroes Beyond the Badge award for helping children and their...

OACP & OnStar Canada to Honour WRPS’s Backpack Challenge With Heroes Beyond the Badge Award

Media Advisory

Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police & OnStar Canada to Honour 
Waterloo Region Police Service’s Backpack Challenge With Heroes Beyond the Badge Award

For Immediate Release: October 20, 2023

(Toronto, ON) - The Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) will hold a media event where the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) and OnStar Canada will present a provincial Heroes Beyond the Badge award to WRPS for its annual Backpack Challenge. 

Date: Monday October 23, 2023 

Time: 

Posting of Proposed Regulations under the Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019

DATE:                              August 4, 2023
MEMORANDUM TO:    All Chiefs of Police and Commissioner Thomas Carrique, Chairs, Police Services Boards
FROM:                            Ken Weatherill, Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Safety Division
SUBJECT:                      Posting of Proposed Regulations under the Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019

The Ministry of the Solicitor General continues to work with our policing and community partners to bring the Community Safety and...

Memorial for Woodstock Police Service Dog Taz

MEMORANDUM TO:

ONTARIO CHIEFS OF POLICE

Re: Memorial for Woodstock Police Service Dog Taz

As you may be aware, Woodstock Police Service Dog Taz was tragically killed in an on duty incident on July 3, 2023. PSD Taz was young but respected throughout the K9 community. He was a great service dog and developed into an outstanding detection dog.

We have planned a Memorial for PSD Taz in Woodstock for police personnel, family and friends on August 1, 2023. The public and policing community have been very...

Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario - Press Advisory

INDIGENOUS POLICE CHIEFS OF ONTARIO

PRESS ADVISORY

Federal Court Orders Funds to Flow, Rescuing Three Indigenous Police Services from Being Forced to Cease Operations

June 30, 2023

Today, the Federal Court granted, in part, an emergency motion for interim relief brought by the Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario (“IPCO”) on behalf of three Indigenous Police Services: Anishinabek Police Service (“APS”), Treaty Three Police Service (“T3PS”), and UCCM Anishnaabe Police (“UCCM”).

On June 14, 2023,...