Wingham Free PressA pocket-dial occurs when a cellular phone stored in an insecure fashion in places such as pockets, handbags and backpacks inadvertently place calls while being tossed about. OPP Provincial Communications Centres (PCC) continue to see far too many pocket dials. These calls unnecessarily tie up 9-1-1 lines and can result in delayed response for people […]
Road Is Open (WARWICK TOWNSHIP, ON) Lambton County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) advises that Forest Road is now open. It was closed for several hours on the evening of January 10, 2013 while police investigated a crash involving a transport truck and a cyclist. Further details will be released as they become available.
(LONDON, ON)- On Friday January 10, 2014 at 8:48 p.m. members of the Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), London Police Service (LPS), Middlesex-London Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and London Fire Department responded to a tractor trailer roll over on the westbound on ramp to HWY 401 at Highbury Avenue. Police have learned that a […]
(WARWICK TOWNSHIP, ON) Just after 6:00 p.m. on January 10, 2014, Lambton County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Lambton County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) responded to a crash on Forest Road in the area of Hickory Creek Line. Preliminary investigation indicates that a transport truck travelling north on Forest road struck a cyclist. The cyclist, […]
(PLYMPTON-WYOMING, ON) Lambton County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are on scene of a collision on Forest Road in the area of Hickory Creek Line. All northbound traffic on Forest Road is being diverted at Birnam Line for eastbound and Aberarder Line for westbound. Forest Road (also known as Main Street) is closed to southbound traffic […]
(KENORA, ON) Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have charged a Kenora woman for an Impaired Driving offence following a vehicle stop on January 10, 2014. Shortly after 3:00 am on Friday January 10, 2014 OPP officers were advised that a vehicle had struck a pole in a parking lot […]
(MADOC, ON) – On January 10, 2014 at 5:50 a.m. members of the Ontario Provincial Police Organized Crime Enforcement – Bureau Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU), Tactics and Rescue Unit (TRU), Emergency Response Team (ERT) and Central Hastings Detachment executed a Controlled Drug and Substance Act warrant and a Criminal Code search warrant at a residence […]
(ORILLIA, ON) – One would think that temperatures near -20C degrees would be enough motivation to stay inside and keep warm. This was not the case though on Wednesday, January 8, 2014. Members on the Orillia Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Detachment arrested a 17 year old male for spray painting several buildings in the north […]
(Smiths Falls,ON.) – On Sunday the 5th of January 2014, at around 11:15 p.m., Ontario Provincial Police in Rideau Lakes Township received a call regarding two suspicious males at the Hydro One compound on Eric Hutcheson Rd., north of the town of Smiths Falls. Rideau Lakes O.P.P officers along with O.P.P Emergency Response Unit (ERT) […]
(CHATHAM-KENT, ON) On January 10, 2014, just after 8:00 a.m., Chatham-Kent Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers responded to a collision involving a single motor vehicle on Highway 401 near Blacks Road. The collision occurred when a tractor trailer travelling westbound left the roadway, went through the centre median and into the eastbound lanes, then back […]