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The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) is the municipal police force on the Ottawa side of the National Capital Region in Ontario, Canada.

The OPS had its origins in the pre-Confederation formation of the Bytown Association in 1847, with Roderick Ross becoming the first chief constable for the newly-formed Ottawa Police Department (the precursor to the OPS) in 1855. Over time, the OPD amalgamated the police forces of neighboring municipalities, starting with the Vanier Police in 1984. The OPS took its current name in 2001 with the amalgamation of several neigboring communities into Ottawa.

The OPS currently has 1,387 sworn members and 600 unsworn members in its ranks. It is currently headed by interim Chief Steve Bell, who took over following the resignation of former Chief Peter Sloly (see Controversy section below).

Controversy

• OPS Chief Peter Sloly, who had sided with Canadian Liberal dictator Justin Trudeau and similarly made false accusations against the anti-CCP flu mandate Freedom Convoy trucker protest (including accusing them, without proof, of "harmful activities" and of spreading "hatred" and "violence"), announced his resignation from his post after he was criticized for his baseless accusations.^[1] His replacement, Steve Bell, announced that it was now "illegal" to peacefully protest against the government.^[2]
• The OPS, speaking at Trudeau's behest, publicly claimed that anyone still protesting in Ottawa is now "breaking the law" (even though there is no law, either federally, provincially or locally, against peaceful protesting);^[3] in response, members of the main protest voted to dismiss the invocation of the Emergencies Act (which Trudeau invoked on February 14, 2022 in disproportionate response to the peaceful Freedom Convoy protests^[4]) as nothing more than a scare tactic utilized by Trudeau for intimidation purposes.^[5]
• Trudeau began employing the OPS as his personal Gestapo to begin illegal arrests and seizures of the truckers' private property in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He started by ordering the arrests of Freedom Convoy organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich on false charges of "counseling to commit mischief" (a charge that would actually apply to the organizers of the violent riots perpetrated by Antifa, Black Lives Matter and other far-Left hate groups favored by Trudeau^[6] and other corrupt leftist politicians), with Barber also being falsely charged with "counseling to disobey a court order" and "counseling to obstruct police".^[7]
• The OPS, to cover up their crimes (including vandalism, assaults and the use of disproportionate force against the peaceful protesters),^[8] also began making illegal threats of arrest (in violation of freedom of speech and freedom of the press) against members of the media who cover the Freedom Convoy,^[9] while protesters prevented the OPS from illegally arresting another trucker;^[10] in response to the OPS' threat against journalists, several constitutional rights groups condemned the force.^[11]
• Hundreds more OPS officers, along with officers brought in from outside of Ottawa and from out of province, began flooding into Ottawa under orders from Trudeau to deal Gestapo-style with the Freedom Convoy and began violently clashing with protesters,^[12], with there even being reports of police snipers on the rooftops of buildings near the site of the main protest.^[13]
• True North journalist Andrew Lawton was pepper sprayed by OPS jackboots as part of their Trudeau-ordered Gestapo-style illegal crackdown against the Freedom Convoy; in response, Candice Malcolm, another journalist for True North, has hired a lawyer to take the OPS to court for assault and targeting of a journalist.^[14]
• Several OPS jackboots gang-attacked and viciously assaulted one protester and falsely accused other protesters of "assaulting" officers and tying to "grab their guns", while Trudeau ignored the carnage he had unleashed as he tweeted about the 2022 Winter Olympics in Peking,^[15] for which he was almost universally roasted on Twitter.
• Acting in collusion with the OPS, mounted RCMP officers in Ottawa later escalated the violence when they charged their horses into a group of protesters and brutally trampled several of them, including an elderly woman with a walker, and even callously laughing about their vicious and illegal actions, while Ottawa Public Health, in covering for the criminal actions of the jackboots, told Twitter users to "turn off Twitter" to keep said actions from being seen.^[16] While the trampling victim, an elderly First Nations woman who took part in the Freedom Convoy protest, was originally reported to have been killed, independent journalist Keean Bexte later reported that she was alive and hospitalized with a dislocated shoulder.^[17]
• Rebel News reporter Alexa Lavoie was viciously assaulted and injured by OPS jackboots, one of whom lunged at her and struck her in the head three times without provocation, followed by a second jackboot shooting a tear gas canister at her leg at point-blank range, all of which was caught live on camera as she was covering the OPS' continuing Trudeau-ordered Gestapo tactics against Freedom Convoy protesters.^[18] Several of the protesters rescued Lavoie from being further attacked by the uniformed thugs. Rebel News host Ezra Levant, who speculated that Trudeau has officially ordered his jackboots to attack journalists who film their criminal activity and pointed out that some of them intentionally attacked Lavoie after they saw her filming them assaulting protesters, announced that the news outlet will sue the OPS for its criminal assault against Lavoie.
• Steve Bell praised the actions of the jackboots under his command, claiming that their acts of violent and lawless thuggery have been "lawful and safe" despite being the exact opposite.^[19]
• The OPS has come under fire on its Twitter page for its continued false claims, lies and gaslighting in its posts regarding its own actions and those of the Freedom Convoy protesters, all of which have been debunked and discredited by video reports from Rebel News, True North and various independent journalists that expose the lies of the OPS.^[20] While a minority of liberal Twitter posters have actually cheered on and supported the actions of the OPS jackboots while immaturely mocking and ridiculing the protesters and their supporters, the overwhelming majority of posters have been harshly critical of the OPS and its lawless actions. When Ottawa citizens began flooding OPS phone lines to call them out in outrage over the OPS' tyrannical actions against the protesters, the OPS responded with threats of criminal charges against the callers - basically implying the OPS' implied entitlement to do as they think they please.^[21]
• OPS jackboots began firing rubber bullets and tear gas at hundreds of peaceful protesters in downtown Ottawa as the protesters defiantly held their ground.^[22] Not surprisingly, the complicit liberal media covered for the criminal OPS by ignoring their actions.
• OPS jackboots illegally seized the vehicles of protesters who had been arrested during the crackdowns on the protests; Ottawa mayor/Trudeau puppet Jim Watson then declared that the vehicles stolen by the OPS would be auctioned off to cover the costs of the jackboots' actions, which state propaganda outlet the CBC justified.^[23]

See also

• Calgary Police Service
• Service de police de la Ville de Montréal

References