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If your vehicle breaks down on a highway, here’s why you should call police

When your car breaks down on a road, you likely get out, try to figure out what’s wrong and if you can’t fix it yourself, you call for roadside assistance for help. But major roads and highways have a large volume of traffic driving at high rates of speed. If your vehicle becomes disabled and you can’t get off the roadway, your safety and that of other road users is at risk.

On January 28 at 3:30 pm, a motorist had a tire blow out on his newer-model Honda Civic while driving on the eastbound...

Chief Thomas G. Flanagan a true visionary about the role for women from racialized and Indigenous communities in policing

Thomas G. Flanagan, who served with the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) from 1951 to 1993, five of which were as Chief of Police, recognized the need to attract women from racialized or Indigenous communities to choose a career in policing.

His grandson, Avery Flanagan, a Sergeant with OPS, calls his grandfather his hero and he remembers being told, as a teenager, about the changes his grandfather said were needed.

“I’m third generation police officer in my family,” says Avery, whose three uncles...

Suspect to identify in a sexual assault in the city’s south end

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, February 11, 2021   3:07pm

(Ottawa) – The Ottawa Police Service Sexual Assault and Child Abuse (SACA) Unit is asking for the public’s assistance to identify a man responsible for a sexual assault that occurred in the city’s south end.

Between 9:30pm on December 12th and 1:00am on December 13th, a man approached a woman and sexually assaulted her at the Billings Bridge OC Transpo station. He then left the area on foot.

The suspect is described as a black man, between...