Ottawa Canada Sept 7 2018 A Grande Prairie security guard has been handed an 18-month sentence for child pornography charges. Brian Hanly was sentenced in court on August 30th and was also given a 24-month probation for after his release. The then-46-year-old was charged with possession of child pornography and making child pornography available on […]
Manitoba Canada Sept 1 2018 All four suspects in a shooting that wounded a veteran RCMP officer Wednesday have been caught after an extensive manhunt in rural Manitoba. RCMP, including the SWAT team, swarmed a house in Neepawa Thursday afternoon where a man was holed up after allegedly fleeing the scene of the shooting in Onanole, […]
SARNIA ONT Canada Aug 31 2018 – A suspect returned to the scene of his alleged crime in Sarnia — and was arrested. According to a news release from the Sarnia Police Service, officers at 2:15 a.m. Tuesday responded to an alarm at a building in the 5000 block of Blackwell Side Road. A security guard […]
EDMONTON Canada Aug 30 2018 —A security guard convicted of stomping a man to death behind the store he was supposed to be protecting has blamed being ‘involuntarily celibate’ for his crimes. He was sentenced to four years in prison by an Edmonton court Wednesday. “He was frustrated with his lot in life, he was angry […]
WINNIPEG Canada Aug 27 2018 – Security Officers at the Health Sciences Centre were assaulted and threatened by a 26-year-old Winnipeg man. On Wednesday, August 22nd a man went to the Health Sciences Centre and left his bicycle in the entrance corridor. The man then began to wander around the complex and entered a women’s staff […]
Ontario Canada Aug 27 2018 An Ontario-based company owned by security giant Garda failed to appropriately compensate employees and misled them about the existence of a so-called averaging agreement to avoid paying overtime, a proposed $25 million class-action lawsuit claims. According to the class action, which requires court approval to proceed, Garda subsidiary Primary Response […]
Winnipeg Canada Aug 25 2018 Winnipeg police are dealing with a string of peace officer assaults this week, including one in which a Winnipeg police officer was dragged by a truck. The first assault happened Wednesday at about 5:30 a.m. after a man left his bicycle at the entrance to the Health Sciences Centre and wandered […]
Winnipeg CA Aug 25 2018 A woman who set off a security alarm while leaving a store at Portage Place is in custody after assaulting one security guard and spitting on another. A security guard approached the 28-year old Thursday after the alarm went off, so she pulled a box of perfume out of her bag […]
EDMONTON Canada Aug 20 2018 –As marijuana goes corporate in Canada, some police officers are making the move from busting grow-ops to protecting them. Rick Martens, head of security for the 800,000-square-foot Aurora Sky cannabis production facility just south of Edmonton, was a police officer for 26 years before retiring as a sergeant in 2012. When […]
Toronto Canada Aug 16 2018 The Toronto Police Service is moving to a verified response model for burglar alarm activations, according to the Canadian Security Association. The new model will take effect on Sept. 10 this year. According to the new guidelines: The Toronto Police Service will no longer respond to alarms solely on the request […]