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Publishing date: Feb 22, 2021 • February 24, 2021 • 2 minute read One-year-old Grayson Jones pets Murney, with mother Kirsten Chard looking on and Kingston Police Const. Sarah Groenewegen on board. The mounted unit was at Lake Ontario Park in Kingston for Victoria Day festivities on May 19, 2019. Photo by Meghan Balogh /The Whig-Standard
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Kingston Police have put out a call for donations to keep their mounted unit in the saddle.
The role of police horse Murney and her rider, Const. Sarah Groenewegen, with the force first came into question at the end of 2019 when the Kingston Police Services Board decided to cut the position in order to hire 10 new officers.
MIDDLESEX CENTRE, ONT. Ontario s Special Investigations Unit has charged a London police officer in connection with the death of 28-year-old Amanda Bolt. Bolt died in Nov. 2019 while in the custody of the London Police Service. According to the SIU, Bolt was arrested at her home on Nov. 2, 2019 and taken to police headquarters before being released, but Bolt was arrested again later the same day for breaching the conditions of her release and placed in a police cell. The next morning, she went into medical distress and was transported to hospital and placed on life support. Bolt died in hospital on Nov. 13, 2019.
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Thunder Bay police constable nominated for Police Hero award
Sharlene Bourdeau has spearheaded the Tree of Hope project.
Mar 2, 2021 8:10 AM By: TbNewsWatch.com Staff
THUNDER BAY The Thunder Bay Police Service officer who initiated the
Tree of Hope project has been nominated for a Police Association of Ontario Police Hero award.
Constable Sharlene Bourdeau says I was surprised. Someone stopped me in the hallway Friday and said congratulations . I don t know who nominated me, but I m very honoured.
Bourdeau spearheaded the project to raise funds to help solve the cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
For the last two years, trees in front of police headquarters on Balmoral Street have been illuminated with lights starting with a sacred ceremony in November in memory of the victims.
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