Tps articles

  • More than $12M spent policing demonstrations in Toronto since October: TPS

    More than $12 million has been spent policing protests across the city since October, the Toronto Police Service said Friday. The figure, announced in a Friday news conference by deputy chief Lauren Pogue, accounts for both the regular costs and overtime hours needed to engage with “hundreds” of demonstrations that have taken place across the city since Oct. 7. It has increased by almost three million dollars since mid-February, when the service provided its last update on costs. “The...

  • Toronto police officer seriously injured while making an arrest in North York: TPS

    A Toronto police officer has been injured while making an arrest in North York on Monday night, say police. The incident happened around 10 p.m. in the Willowdale neighbourhood, near Yonge Street and Kingsdale Avenue, north of Sheppard Avenue. Police said that the officer attended that area following reports of five males attempting to steal a car and was injured making an arrest. A medis officrer told CP24 that there was no weapon used on the officer and that there are no other reports...