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Officer teams up with local company to publish kids’ stories to connect with youth during Covid

An Ottawa Police Service officer, looking for new ways to connect with local youth in the face of Covid restrictions, spearheaded the resurgence of a literary program called, Grow a Writer. Now 30 kids can say they are published authors!

Sergeant Devon Archer, who works as a Neighbourhood Resource Team officer, is used to engaging with the community, but Covid restrictions have made traditional ways of connecting difficult.

“I play for the Ottawa Police Blues Soccer team, and sports are a great way...

Woman who lost $9000 in scam gets money back

Police officers in Ottawa and Montreal recovered $9000 for a woman after she fell for a convincing scam involving the arrest of her son.

The Ottawa resident was called by someone claiming to be her son on March 26. He was crying and difficult to hear, but he was cut off, and a man posing as an RCMP officer came on the line. He told her that her son had been arrested and to send money by a parcel delivery service for his release. He gave her an address in Montreal. The woman was surprised to hear...

Woman wanted following 2020 conviction for Kidnapping and Sexual assault offences

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 12, 2021   11:45am 

(Ottawa) – The Ottawa Police Service Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit and the OPP East Region Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement (ROPE) are seeking the public’s assistance to locate Sandrine TOMBA-KALEMA who fled Ottawa after being convicted of Sexual Assault, Kidnapping, Forcible Confinement and Breaking and Entering in late 2019. 

The charges relate to an incident in 2015 for which three other women were also convicted. 

TOMBA-KALEMA fled...

Vietnamese Refugee to Ottawa Police Officer: Constable Phong Le remembers the act of kindness that inspired him to pursue a career serving his community

My mom, sister and I were part of the boat people who came to Canada from Vietnam in 1979. We were just three of the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing communism to Thailand in search for a better life.  Project 4000 was championed by former Ottawa Mayor Marion Dewar. 

My mother wanted to give my sister and I a better life, fearing the unknown of communism. We had to leave my father behind. He and my grandfather were prisoners of war for 13 years.  I was six years old. The last words my...

Officer learned his caring nature and duty of care from his mother

Cst. Jean-Alex de Sève Bergeron grew up on a farm in the village of St. Claude, Québec. His father taught at l’Université de Sherbrooke and his mother gave up a promising teaching career to raise her sons.

“In addition to looking after us, she also ran the farm,” said Jean-Alex, who’s been a police officer for five years, three of them with the Ottawa Police Service. “She made it look easy, and she did it all with patience and kindness.”

His mother instilled in him the calling to serve one’s...