Inside two days, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) from the Higher Ottawa Valley detachment laid a number of charges in opposition to folks in intimate accomplice violence circumstances.
“Serious” charges got to a 37-year-old from Madawaska Valley Township on Jan. 16 after police responded to a home dispute in progress at a house. Officers discovered that threats had been made and an edged weapon and imitation gun had been proven to the sufferer.
Police discovered the particular person on the house and took a pellet pistol. There have been no severe accidents, the discharge reads.
The 37-year-old was charged with:
Uttering threats to break property
Assault with a weapon
Possession of an imitation weapon for a harmful function
Operation whereas impaired – alcohol
They’re scheduled to seem on the Ontario Courtroom of Justice in Pembroke.
Days later, police charged one other particular person after an intimate accomplice violence name.
It occurred the afternoon of Jan. 18 when police went to a house in Bonnechere Valley Township. As soon as there, they discovered that one particular person had a gun opposite to a court docket order.
Officers took the unused firearm and the particular person was arrested on the scene. Because of this the 48-year-old was charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm.
Giant land mass being policed
Final yr, a number of press launch from OPP Higher Ottawa Valley (UOV) laid out what number of intimate accomplice violence circumstances they reply to in per week.
From Nov. 12 to 18, police responded to twenty-eight home disputes. A press launch from police dated Nov. 14 famous that the week of Nov. 1 to 7 noticed 30 circumstances of home disputes. An identical statistic was shared by police from Sept. 23 to 27 with 29 circumstances investigated.
Though the numbers are regarding, Provincial Constable Shawn Peever with UOV, mentioned they have to be taken with context. In September the UOV detachment amalgamated with the Killaloe detachment, making the realm the biggest land mass to police in jap Ontario.
“It’s an issue here, and it’s an issue in the province, it’s an issue in our country,” Peever mentioned of intimate accomplice violence.
Experiences of intimate accomplice violence are on the rise throughout the province, the variety of reported circumstances rising by 40 per cent between 2014 and 2022, based on StatCan.
