by XPolice | Oct 2, 2019 | News, Ottawa & Area
For the month of October, Ottawa Police Service (OPS) in conjunction with Gatineau Police and Safer Roads Ottawa, under the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP), are focusing on two traffic areas that have been identified as top priorities — distracted driving...
by XPolice | Sep 26, 2019 | News, Ottawa & Area
A pilot project testing a 110-km/h speed limit takes off Thursday along a just over 100-kilometre stretch of Highway 417 from Anderson Road in the city’s east end to the Quebec border. The 150 km/h cut off for street racing won’t change and transports are still...
by XPolice | Sep 24, 2019 | News, Ottawa & Area
An Ottawa police officer has been cleared of fault after a man on an e-bike was struck and seriously injured at an intersection where the officer was directing traffic on Sept. 17, 2018. The province’s Special Investigations Unit cleared the officer on Monday saying...
by XPolice | Aug 30, 2019 | News, Ottawa & Area
Parking, traffic and police officers will be out in numbers next week, while officials behind the scenes will be monitoring traffic flow in Ottawa’s core. The City of Ottawa is implementing an initiative it hopes with improve traffic flow in the city’s...
by XPolice | Aug 26, 2019 | News, Ottawa & Area
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press Two-hundred and twenty-four days after three people died when a double-decker commuter bus slammed into an Ottawa transit station, the woman who was behind the wheel has been charged in their deaths, as well as for injuring 35 others....