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The following story was written by veteran York Regional Police Communicator Leigh Bonnis, who dispatched officers in Richmond Hill when one of their colleagues was attacked on March 27, 2020.
It is a typical Friday afternoon in March. #2 District is steady. I’m excited about being off early and thinking about enjoying pizza dinner with my family in a few short hours. As I take a bite out of a granola bar, I hear a scream over the radio: “Get on the ground!”...
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After a man is shot and killed at a Vaughan short-term rental home during a house party, Communications quarterbacks the response. May 12, 03:34:27 9-1-1 call received Call taker Leigh Bonnis fields the first call to 9-1-1. Shrill screams break the early morning calm and emerge from the headset, piercing the call taker’s ear. They subside for just long enough for Bonnis to hear clearly:
“Someone has been killed.”
03:35:21 Units dispatched Dispatcher...
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Project Cutter targets street-level drug trafficking in #1 District The cocaine was pure. A little too pure.
“This was definitely strange for street-level drug deals in Newmarket,” said Staff Sergeant Dave Ecklund, who led a property crime team in the #1 District Criminal Investigations Bureau (CIB).
Investigators also noticed that local drug dealers were becoming increasingly brazen, making daylight drug deals in coffee shops, parking lots and on busy street...
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Frontline officer identifies suspect on the street During any given month, Detective Constable Jamie Kolarsky might have a dozen cases come across her desk in the #2 District Criminal Investigations Bureau — Persons Crime Section. But any case involving child victims quickly gets shuffled to the top of the pile.
“This one stood out to me right away,” she said. “We wanted to close this case to assure the families of these children that they could enjoy...
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Detective Josh McCue gives back to the community where he grew up To Detective Josh McCue, community engagement doesn’t happen from inside a cruiser.
“As officers, we need to get out there and really interact with people,” he said. “This is especially important when we are trying to build relationships with members of an indigenous community.”
Detective McCue, who works in the #3 District Criminal Investigations Bureau, is a member of the...
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