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The Police Services Act (French: Loi sur les services policiers; R.S.O. 1990, chapter P.15) ("the Act") is the law governing the conduct of police officers in the province of Ontario, Canada.
The Comprehensive Ontario Police Services Act (Bill 68, 2019; French: Loi de 2019 sur la refonte complète des services de police de l'Ontario) is a law in the province of Ontario that brought a number of reforms to policing in the province. [1]
The OCPC has two divisions: Adjudicative and Investigative. The divisions operate independently under one Registrar. The Adjudicative division is led by the Associate Chair and, until the Police Services Act was repealed, primarily dealt with appeals of disciplinary matters, proposals to amalgamate, reduce or abolish existing municipal police forces, budgetary disputes regarding police ...
As a provincial civilian law enforcement agency, the SIU has the power and authority to investigate police officers regulated by the Special Investigations Unit Act [7] and charge them with criminal offences. The SIU oversees 47 police services and upwards of 23,000 police officers from municipal, regional, and provincial services. [8]
[5] [6] In Ontario, police services are obliged to provide at least five core police services — crime prevention, law enforcement, maintenance of the public peace, emergency response, and assistance to victims of crime — to fulfill the province's requirement for "adequate and effective policing," [7] while in neighbouring Quebec, the ...
Police Officers in Ontario will now have the right to stop and have the ... according to a new power granted by the province of Ontario using the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act ...
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is the provincial police service of Ontario, Canada.The OPP patrols provincial highways and waterways; protects provincial government buildings and officials, with the exception of the legislative precinct; patrols unincorporated areas in northern Ontario; provides training, operational support, and funding to some Indigenous police forces; and investigates ...
Authorized as "Special Constables" by the York Police Services Board, pursuant to Section 53 of the Ontario Police Services Act. The Special Constable appointment, by its very nature affords " peace officer " powers under section 2 of the Canadian Criminal Code, as it relates to the duties of the YRT/Viva Transit System.