Police

Amazon has admitted to handing over footage from customers' Ring doorbells to police in the U.S. 11 times so far this year alone — reports The Intercept. The company's vice president of public policy, Brian Huseman, divulged the information in a letter to Senator Ed Markey, D-Mass., earlier this month. Huseman was responding to an earlier...

According to a new report from CTV News, the Ontario Provincial Police charged more than 11,000 drivers during the Victoria Day long weekend. The report notes that more than 10,600 of these were speeding charges, with less than 200 of which were for driving 50 km/h over the speed limit. The OPP said that these...

Microsoft may have all but given up on Windows Phones, but rookies in the New York City Police Department have, for quite some time now, getting them with their gun and badge. The NYPD only started handing out department-issued smartphones and email addresses in 2015, and the official device of the largest police force in the United...

If you’re a sneaky texter behind the wheel, think again, as police in New Brunswick have launched a pilot project onboard a bus to spot texting and driving, reports CTV News. Constable Duane Squires of Saint John police says the initiative was modeled after one a similar one carried out by the York Regional Police....

The RCMP has handed out 77 percent more tickets in this year's distracted driving month blitz than last year. Just last month, the RCMP handed out a total of 310 distracted driving tickets in Manitoba. This is significantly higher than the 175 tickets they handed out last April. In a statement to CBC News, RCMP Traffic Sgt....

According to a new report from TheStar, Toronto police are preparing to roll out an app that will let officers connect people in crisis with mental health services and other professionals in the field. The Community Asset Portal is a location-detecting app that presents users with a map of available services near them. The app...

According to a new report from the National Post, a rock was thrown through the windows of Windsor Councillor John Elliott. On Monday, city council officially voted to allow Uber to legally operate in the city. On early Wednesday morning, someone smashed a rock through Elliott's window. Elliott believes that the act was taken because of his...

Police in the Greater Victoria area estimated that they issued 100 tickets to drivers on Thursday. The large increase in tickets that were handed out was due to a distracted driving safety blitz by the Integrated Road Safety Unit and Victoria and Saanich police. At the intersection of Quadra Street and McKenzie Avenue, an intersection that has...

According to Calgary police, fewer tickets are being written for distracted driving this year. While this is good news, it is not due to drivers texting less while driving, says a new report from CBC. Calgary officers have issued more than 300 tickets in the traffic section alone, according Staff Sgt. Paul Stacey. “We’re kidding ourselves […]

Researchers at SBA Research in Vienna have teamed up with T-Mobile Austria, a fully-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, to study whether the use of electronic surveillance devices known as IMSI catchers, commonly used by police and government agencies around the world to spy on cellular networks, can be detected. Turns out it's actually possible to tell when police use this...

According to a new report from the Toronto Sun, Montreal police have not tapped the phones of any journalists during an investigation. On Saturday, Chief Philippe Pichet said that they only tapped the phones of its own officers under investigation. Pichet issued the response after La Presse reported that police obtained a warrant to tap into...

Halton police have started warning residents of their city about the risks of playing Pokemon Go. Over the past week, various reports have surfaced about people getting injured, and in some cases breaking the law, as they play the game. Halton Police have been posting on social media this week to warn users about the […]