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OACP HQ Magazine Feature

Did you know that you can access back issues of HQ Magazine and bonus articles on our HQ Magazine Hub? Check out this article, A Collaborative Approach to Sourcing Video Data for Police Investigations, by Staff Sergeant Jeremy Ashley, Belleville Police Service.

Do you have a story to tell about something you and/or your police service have undertaken that others in the policing community can learn from? Contact Joe Couto at jcouto@oacp.ca or Larissa Pereira at lpereira@oacp.ca and let us know what you’d...

Indigenous Services File Human Rights Complaint

The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) is supporting the efforts of Indigenous police services, adding the voice of police leaders to growing calls from Indigenous communities for funding justice when it comes to government support for Indigenous police services. A new resolution passed by OACP members at the Annual General Meeting held on June 14 speaks directly to the unacceptable fiscal situation which Indigenous police services in our province continue to experience.

This week,...

2023 OACP Annual Awards

Congratulations to all our annual awards winners honoured on June 13 at the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police’s (OACP) Annual Conference:

• Toronto Police Service - 2022 Vision Zero Enforcement Team awarded the 2023 OACP Traffic Safety Excellence Award
• Staff Superintendent John Goodman, Waterloo Regional Police Service awarded the 2023 OACP Excellence in Leadership Award
• Constable Laura Nicolle, York Regional Police, awarded the 2023 OACP/OMRON Catherine Martin Award of Excellence in Media...

OACP’s Annual Conference a Huge Success!

This year’s Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) 2023 Annual Conference was a huge success, with more than 300 delegates from federal, provincial, municipal, and Indigenous police services in attendance. Police leaders, government officials, and policing partners from across Ontario gathered in Kingston, Ontario, from June 11-14, 2023.

The Annual Conference kicked off with an Opening Ceremony that featured the singing of the national anthem in three languages, English, French, and...

New OACP Board of Directors Announced Continued Strong Leadership From Ontario’s Police Leaders

The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police is the voice of Ontario’s Police Leaders

Members of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police serve their communities as senior police leaders in municipal, regional, provincial, national, and First Nations police services across Ontario

Media Release

New OACP Board of Directors Announced

Continued Strong Leadership From Ontario’s Police Leaders

For Immediate Release: June 15, 2023

(Kingston, ON) – The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) is pleased...