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Beware of a scam targeting international students, using Ottawa Police phone number
Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2018 07:15 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, April 5, 2018 11:25am
(Ottawa) — The Ottawa Police Service Organized Fraud Unit is warning the public of the resurgence of a previously reported scam.
Victims, who are mostly international students, have received calls from persons pretending to be investigators from the Government of Canada’s Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Department.
The fraudster typically tells the victim that they have committed a crime in their home country (usually money...
Beware of False Job Offers
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 07:00 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 12:50 pm
(Ottawa) – The Ottawa Police Service is informing the public of the resurgence of a popular scam where people are being offered false employment opportunities.
The employment opportunities are offered on job sites, internet ads, unsolicited emails, unsolicited texts, or in the newspapers. On other occasions, people who are posting their résumé online are being offered jobs.
Those who respond to the ads are told that they have received...
Shooting on McLeod results in homicide - Warrant for arrest
Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 10:30 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:35pm
(Ottawa) – The Ottawa Police Service Major Crime Section has obtained a Canada–wide warrant for the arrest of Ali Omar MOHAMED, 20 years old.
MOHAMED has been charged with 2nd degree murder in relation to the homicide of Adam Perron, on January 18,2018 on McLeod Street.
MOHAMED, who goes by the street name of “Simba” is considered to be armed and dangerous. Do not approach him, call police.
If you have information on the whereabouts of Ali...
Commercial Motor Vehicle enforcement results
Posted on Monday, December 11, 2017 11:45 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, December 11, 2017 4:50 pm
(Ottawa)–The Ministry of Transportation, the Ontario Provincial Police and Ottawa Police Service conducted a one-day proactive commercial motor vehicle blitz in the city’s west end.
The enforcement campaign, which took place today, focused on commercial motor vehicle safety and their drivers and was conducted by three CVSA-certified commercial motor vehicle inspectors as well as 4 traffic officers.
As a result, 22 charges were laid,...
A look at 150 years of communications at Ottawa Police
Posted on Monday, December 11, 2017 02:30 AM
by Dawson Hebert-Arsenault, December 2017 (with information from The History of the Ottawa Police by Gilles Larochelle)
Today's technology provides many ways to contact police but what about 150 years ago?
Ottawa in the 1800's was a very different time and place. This logger's town was feared across North America for the brawlers and bruisers that lived here. Construction on the Rideau Canal brought in hard-working and hard-drinking men from across the globe. Frequent arrests of the day included...
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