OPP – Don’t Pay the Con Artist
In the past two weeks, the following scams have been reported to the South Bruce OPP:
Phone call asking to confirm the last 3...
Weapons charges – multi-agency project
In mid-October, The Saugeen Shores Police Service, the Canada Border Services Agency and the OPP Provincial Weapons Enforcement Unit began an investigation into the...
Impaired Driving and Drug Offences result in charges laid
Incident 1 – Impaired Driving
On October 23rd at 3:52pm officers received a report of a male consuming liquor at a
licenced establishment in Southampton. The...
Crime Stoppers: Unsolved Crimes appear to be related
Acts of Mischief – Soccer Fields and Tennis Club, Southampton
Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce and the Saugeen Shores Police Service are seeking the public's...
Thanksgiving motor vehicle collisions on OPP highways up from last year
As Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers prepare to police some of the heaviest traffic volumes of the year, they are reporting 216 fatal motor vehicle collisions...
Driver charged with impaired and drug trafficking
On October 5th at 9:57 pm a member of the Criminal Investigations and Drug Unit was on general patrol in Southampton when the officer observed...
Power Workers’ Union supports junior firefighter program
For the second year, the Power Workers’ Union (PWU) has presented a donation to the Junior Fire Program of Saugeen Shores.
Last year, 2018, the...
OPP report 20 per cent increase in seat belt related deaths
Forty two (42) people who were not safely buckled up have died in collisions on OPP-patrolled roads so far this year, a 20 percent spike over...
Heavy traffic intersection in Port Elgin sees another accident
On Saturday afternoon (Sept. 28) at Ivings Drive and Goderich Street in Port Elgin, a two-vehicle collision brought traffic down to one lane.
The intersection...
Students’ orderly fire drill impressive
Shortly after a general school assembly on Thursday (Sept. 26) and after students returned to their classrooms, the fire drill alarm began.
Everyone, of course,...
New Saugeen Shores Police station officially opens on time and under budget
New Saugeen Shores Police station officially opens on time and under budget.
From state-of-the-art technology to the colours chosen, every detail in the new Saugeen...
Impaired driving offences skyrocketing
Grey Bruce OPP reported a concerning and troubling 50 percent increase of drivers charged with impaired driving throughout the detachment area, from the previous...
Causing a Disturbance and Resisting Arrest
On Sunday, September 22nd at approximately 2:10 a.m., an officer on patrol was flagged down by staff at a local licenced establishment concerning three men...
OPP Officers arrest individual with firearm
On September 18, 2019 at 11:18 p.m. Grey Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to a residence at Highway 21, Saugeen First Nation...
