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A crack in the thin Blue Line - Toronto Police
TORONTO - The SIU has been called in after police shot a man in Oakville, Ont. (QMI)
TORONTO - The province’s Special Investigation Unit (SIU) has been called in to probe an incident in which a man died while being investigated by Toronto Police officers. (CityNews)
TORONTO - Police colleagues are remembering a fellow officer who was killed Tuesday in a motorcycle accident while off duty. Const. Riccardo Torchia, 30, had worked in 23 Division, coverng Rexdale. (CTV) MORE: Cop dies in crash Police identify officer
TORONTO - After a tip from the public, police arrested Lekang Mdlongwa, who was sentenced in an Old City Hall courtroom to 6 more months in jail. Mdlongwa, 32, is the second person to be found guilty of torching squad car #766. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer has been charged after a man was allegedly assaulted at a police station last week. Const. Matthew Glen, 32, has been charged with assault causing bodily harm. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - A 61-year-old man suffered a fracture during an “interaction” with police in a holding cell at 51 Division in October 2010. (Toronto Star) RELATED: New rules urged for SIU probes
TORONTO - The Toronto Police Service arrested Const. Brandon Fraser and charged him with sexual assault, sexual interference and sexual exploitation. (CTV)
TORONTO - A judge has sentenced Christopher Higgins, a veteran Toronto police detective, to 90 days in jail for beating up and breaking the arm of a man who was in police custody. (Toronto Star) MORE: 90 days
TORONTO - A Toronto cop's threat to Taser suspects' testicles was condemned as "disgraceful, unacceptable and shocking" by a Toronto Police spokesman. (QMI)
TORONTO - Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is probing the death of a man who died after being apprehended at a Toronto grocery store. (CP) MORE: Man dies in custody
TORONTO - A 29-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was hit during an SUV chase. (CityNews)
TORONTO - Police figures show that 31,072 people were strip-searched in 2010 - 85 a day - up from 29,789 the previous year. (CBC)
TORONTO - A veteran 22 Division policeman handed out a Highway Traffic Act ticket to a rookie officer stationed in a neighbouring division who was in the process of arresting an off-duty Halton Region cop for impaired driving-related charges in 2009. (QMI)
TORONTO - Const. Christopher Hominuk, 38, was given a conditional discharge after a judge ruled that his actions on May 24, 2010, could be attributed to hypoglycemia. (CityNews)
MORE: Cop gets discharge
Cop struggles with mental illness
TORONTO - It was a desperate cry for help to a police service that would rather look away. But mentally, Sgt. Paul Theriault was falling apart. (QMI)
TORONTO - Police officers under investigation for shootings or serious injuries will be prohibited from communicating with one another or sharing a lawyer as of Aug. 1, says Ontario Attorney General Chris Bentley. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Const. Glenn Weddell was charged with assault causing bodily harm, almost one year after the alleged attack took place. (CTV) MORE: Officer charged
TORONTO - Police forces across Ontario are thumbing their noses at the provincial agency that investigates cops, refusing to cooperate with or even respond to the Special Investigations Unit (SIU). (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Two Toronto police constables have been found guilty of assault causing bodily harm during the arrest of a disabled, verbally abusive man in Cabbagetown. Edward Ing and John Cruz were stone-faced and had no comment after Justice Elliott Allen gave his verdict. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Jeron Powell pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder, two counts of armed robbery with a firearm and was sentenced to 25 years in a federal penitentiary. The court laughably applied Powell's third lifetime firearms ban. (Sun Media)
TORONTO - A Toronto Star investigation has found that since 2005, more than 400 officers and prison guards across Ontario received a total of $1.5M from the taxpayer-funded Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (CICB). (Toronto Star) MORE: Payouts to injured officers create stir
TORONTO - After nearly six weeks of testimony, a disciplinary hearing for a Toronto police officer accused of sexual harassment and “tyrannical and oppressive behaviour” has been adjourned. The move further delays proceedings for former staff inspector Steve Izzett, which prosecutors say should have been wrapped up by now. (Toronto Star)
Complainant accused of perjury
Officer forced to reveal same sex relationship
Force 'knew what it was getting'
Female cop alleges sexual harassment
TORONTO - After months of political maneuvering, Toronto police Chief Bill Blair, along with the Toronto Police Services Board has struck a deal with the city for the force’s 2012 budget. (CityNews)
Price of police reports to go up
Paid police gigs face city review
TORONTO - The province’s SIU has cleared two Toronto police officers in the shooting of two people at the Caribbean Carnival parade on July 30. Kevin Murray, 30, was shot dead and 21-year-old Megan Martin, an innocent participant in the parade, was shot and injured by police in the melee. (Toronto Star)
Secrecy leaves public in the dark
TORONTO - The SIU says Eric Osawe, 26, suffered a fatal gunshot wound Sept. 29 after police arrived with a search warrant at an apartment on Dunbloor Road in the city's west end. The SIU says Const. David Cavanagh is due in court to face the manslaughter charge. (CP) PREVIOUS: Cop charged in deadly raid
TORONTO - A man killed in a police shooting was suffering from mental health issues as well as emotional distress, a family member claims. Reyal Jensen Jardine-Douglas, 25, was fatally shot on Sunday. (CityNews) PREVIOUS: Police involved shooting Man shot by police
TORONTO - Mike McCormack, president of the Toronto Police Association, has been fined five days on his conviction of insubordination while a member of the police service. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - A shooting involving York Region Police shut down Weston Rd for several hours on Friday. A police officer was also injured, receiving a broken hand. (CityNews) MORE: Scene suggest shootout 2 shot in takedown
TORONTO - Family members who gathered at the Kipling Ave and Albion Rd building on Wednesday identified the man as Munir Isho, a 39-year-old Iraqi immigrant, husband and father of two. (QMI)
TORONTO - Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has been called to look into an overnight shooting involving Toronto police that left one man dead. (CTV) MORE: SIU investigating shooting Man shot dead
TORONTO - There will be no criminal charges for two Toronto Police officers who fatally shot a man, the province’s Special Investigations Unit said Wednesday. Wieslaw Duda, 49, was killed April 2010. (CityNews) PREVIOUS: Man buried Police shooting SIU investigating Deadly shooting Man shot
TORONTO - A Toronto Police officer has been charged with assault and uttering threats following a probe of old court transcripts by the province's Special Investigations Unit. Det. Const. Gerrard Arulanandam is charged with: Assault Causing Bodily Harm, Uttering Threats. (CTV)
TORONTO - Seven months after he was recognized as a cop of the month, a Toronto Police officer is now charged with sexually assaulting a man during a traffic stop. (Sun Media) MORE: Officer facing assault charges
TORONTO - The Special Investigations Unit has cleared the Toronto Police Service officers involved in the shooting of a man outside an Eglinton Ave East movie theatre in late December. (CTV)
TORONTO - Police are facing a $1.75M lawsuit by a community worker whose home was raided in May 2008. The lawsuit was filed by Brian Henry and his wife, who live in the Malvern neighbourhood. Their home was raided after a tip from an unknown informant. (CBC)
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer is facing charges after allegedly drawing his service revolver during an off-duty verbal dispute with two private security guards. Const. William Hamilton, 58, of Oshawa has been charged. (CTV) MORE: Off duty confrontation
TORONTO - A 21-year-old man faces a long list of charges including attempted murder. The frightening altercation happened in the Weston Rd. and Highway 401 area as members of the Gun and Gang Task Force were conducting an investigation. Nearly 24 hours later, police arrested Jaime Eduardo Merchan and recovered a firearm. (CityNews) MORE: Suspect arrested
TORONTO - An anti-violence plan that Toronto police say has helped reduce crime in the city by nearly 30% is getting a significant financial boost from the province. The strategy, also known as TAVIS, was established by the Toronto Police Service in 2006 to combat gangs, drugs and illegal weapons. (CBC) MORE: Toughest 'hoods' get $10M 76 arrested in drug probe
TORONTO - He spent 10 weeks in jail last year, charged with crimes he did not commit. Now, Hector San Hueza has slapped police and Crown attorneys with a lawsuit. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - A man died after he was shot by a Toronto Police officer outside a movie theatre. (CityNews) MORE: SIU probe launched Police shooting Montreal man shot by Toronto police
TORONTO - Two Toronto police officers have been charged with assaulting a man after an investigation was launched by the province's SIU. (CP)
TORONTO - A young offender has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly trying to shoot a Toronto police officer. (Toronto Star)
Court protects informant identities
TORONTO - An unusual handwritten note on the courtroom door sets out the ground rules: By judge's order, no one is to publish anything that would reveal "or tend to reveal" the identity of confidential informant CI-186 or any other "C.I.'s" during the course of the trial. (Toronto Star)
Officer cleared is charged again
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer was charged with aggravated assault and discharging a firearm with intent by the province's SIU - despite being cleared by a police probe into the same incident two years ago, his lawyer said. (Toronto Star) MORE: 19 months later, man says cops shot him
TORONTO - A 31-year-old man was arrested in a fast-food restaurant shortly after he allegedly opened fire on a group of six people – including two plainclothes police officers – in the city's northeast end Friday afternoon. (Toronto Star) MORE: Suspect named
TORONTO - Two Toronto police officers enlisted the help of a real estate agent to buy and sell properties they converted to marijuana grow operations in order to fuel a massive "criminal enterprise," police said. (Toronto Star)
GRAND CAYMAN - Former Toronto police officer Richard Hanna's international police career has come to a screeching halt in the Cayman Islands where he has been jailed for 15 months for stealing money from schoolchildren. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Former officer bilked school kids
TORONTO - The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board’s decision, which was released on Feb. 19, found that "even when no gun was found on the Applicant the use of excessive force persisted." It also found that Nimo Gulleid was a "victim of a crime of assault." (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - A long-awaited Toronto cop corruption trial has been delayed for months after a judge discharged the jury due to health problems with one of the lawyers. (Toronto Star)
Police 'unplugged' corruption probe
Justice Department accused of stalling probe
Neily report .pdf
Officers face more corruption accusations
Brass said to have blocked internal probe
Corruption probe laid a fraction of charges
TORONTO - Secret recordings obtained by CBC News offer proof that Toronto police conducted illegal eavesdropping on a former police board chair. Then police chief Bill McCormack and Julian Fantino - superintendent of detectives at the time and later police chief and OPP commissioner - have repeatedly refused to say whether they requested or were aware of the surveillance. (CBC)
Ex-head of police oversight board outraged
Defending pulling legal support
Police unions to fight SIU in court
Tasering violated man's rights
TORONTO - Justice David Brown found the officer fired his Taser at the man's back almost two minutes after another ETF officer had fired his stun gun at the man. Police denied the allegations but Brown said he rejected their evidence and was staying the cocaine trafficking charge against Francis Walcott, 41. (Toronto Star)
`He made Toronto a safer city'
TORONTO - Even the police horses stood silent as pallbearers marched past them at the entrance to St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Scarborough. Bagpipes played "Amazing Grace" as eight officers hoisted the casket of former Toronto police chief Jack Marks onto their shoulders. (Toronto Star) MORE: Former police chief laid to rest
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer who was caught on tape sucker-punching a man outside a Rexdale coffee shop was led away in handcuffs when his appeal of the conviction was tossed out of court yesterday. (Toronto Star) RELATED: Officer in strip bar a curious tale Bad day for TPS
Who's protecting this officer's family?
TORONTO - One night in the fall of 1994, shortly after his shift was over, detective Tom Hamilton made a brief stop at a colleague's retirement party, and then he got in his truck and drove north to his home in Keswick. (Toronto Star)
Whistleblower offered settlement
Toronto Police Service has offered a settlement to a whistleblower who accused the force of sweeping internal corruption allegations under the carpet, the officer's lawyer says. (CBC)
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer and his family feel overwhelming relief that a jury has acquitted him of assaulting a demonstrator and concocting a story to cover his tracks, his lawyer says. (Toronto Star)
TORONTO - Over red wine, pasta and other Italian fare, OPP Sgt. Mike Rutigliano, defence lawyer Gary Clewley, who had won the case, private investigator Bruce Murray and another defence lawyer, Owen Wigderson, joined Frank D'Angelo, who had just turned 50. Also at the table were Richard Bennett and Domenic Basile, two well-known veteran Crown attorneys. (Toronto Star)
Probe targets courthouse corruption
Conspiracy to obstruct justice
TORONTO - Making investigative reports about police public will go a long way in improving the reputation of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said former North Bay Police Service chief George Berrigan. (North Bay Nugget)
TORONTO - While the attorney general's ministry says it's appealing the staying of corruption charges against Toronto police officers because the judge got it wrong, lawyers familiar with the office believe the collapse of the case is a symptom of larger difficulties in the ministry's criminal law division, which handles most big prosecutions in Ontario. (Toronto Star)
Suspended Toronto cop facing new charges
Court hearing for drug squad officers
Officer in scandal fights discipline charges
Behind the Toronto police scandal
'Rogue' police bullied witnesses
Case against drug cops falls apart
If media won't obey, he'll cuff'em
Cop propositioned undercover officer
TORONTO - Racial profiling lawsuits and other civil actions are threatening to drive up the Toronto police force's legal bills just as the Supreme Court of Canada prepares to rule in a case that could open police to even more litigation. (Toronto Star) RELATED: Province brands city a high-risk employer
Police board discourages scrutiny
TORONTO - According to the provincial Police Services Act, hearings conducted by the Police Services Board must be open to the public and notice of the tribunals must be published. The only exception is for prevention of risks to public or personal security. (CBC) MORE: Police officers lose name tags battle
TORONTO - Afzal Badin, late for evening prayer, assessed that the kitchen knife in his hand was no match for the men in the hallway with handguns. (Toronto Star)
Guilty officer gets 'vacation'
TORONTO - The brother of a pedestrian gravely injured in a hit-and-run accident caused by an off-duty officer says he is outraged by the man's conditional sentence. (Toronto Star)
Cop charged in attack on cyclist
TORONTO - A 21-year veteran of Toronto police has been charged with assault after a cyclist was attacked in downtown Toronto – an incident dramatically captured on videotape by a group of students working on a project about surveillance cameras. (Toronto Star) RELATED: Cops, cons and 'whack jobs'
TORONTO - Jahnoie Tinglin, 21, faces 34 charges, including attempted murder, carrying a concealed weapon and 16 counts of possessing fraudulent credit card information, after 2 police officers were fired on during a foot chase. (Star) MORE: Man charged with attempting to murder police officers
TORONTO - Toronto police have accused one of their own officers of helping an Eastern European organized crime group charged with importing and exporting marijuana and cocaine between Canada and the US. (CanWest)
Police officer charged in drug raid
Drugs and human trafficking fuel organized crime
TORONTO - A 42-year-old Toronto man was shot and killed after a fight with a Toronto police officer inside a Parkdale pharmacy. (Toronto Star) MORE: SIU probe shooting
Man shot by police dies in hospital
Blair boasts victory over city gun crime
TORONTO - The success of a Toronto police strategy that helped reverse last year's frightening flurry of gun crimes has piqued the interest of other big city forces grappling with rising crime, Police Chief William (Bill) Blair said yesterday. (National Post) COMMENT: No time for boasting Daily listing of violent crimes in Toronto Toronto gun crime:The bleak facts GTA shooting 2007
Toronto's top cops get recognized
One ran into a burning building and carried a woman out on his back. Several others tracked down a child predator who was luring young boys into games of strip poker. Two more followed a hunch and stumbled upon armed robbers at a subway station miles away from the person they robbed. (National Post) PREVIOUS: Police force needs cleanup: veteran officer Blair under fire CBC: Under Fire
Ferguson report released
The Report: Volume 1 Volume 2 Justice Ferguson's comments to the Board .pdf (Feb. 26, 2004)
Toronto cops charged in corruption probe
Police Breaking code of silence
Police drug squad hit with lawsuits
Officers sue police chief over fink fund case
RCMP probes corruption on Toronto Police Force