Media Release Thursday August 27th, 2015 PLEASE!, PLEASE!  Do Not Give Out Your Banking Information Two commonly reported frauds were reported to police on August 26th, 2015 and have seen two Lindsay residents lose nearly $8000.00 in cash to offshore criminals. In the first reported fraud a Lindsay resident was contacted by a male party […]

Thanks to one of our viewers for sharing this link with me. It relates to an article done by McLeans Magazine and covered by CityTV, on the fentanyl problems being faced across Canada. http://www.citynews.ca/2015/06/18/a-deadly-prescription-painkiller-that-is-killing-hundreds-of-canadians/  

Media Release Thursday, June 18, 2015 Tax Scams Over the last couple of weeks KLPS has had numerous reports of people receiving phone calls from someone claiming to be from the Canada Revenue agency asking for personal information. We would like to remind the public that although tax season is almost at an end, fraudsters […]

Bravo! B.R.A.V.O graduates! Today marks the beginning of graduations for local grade 6 students from the BRAVO (Building Respect, Attitudes and Values with Others). We were very proud to have the students from Alexandra Public School visit us today. They are the first graduates of the program and joined us to celebrate! The students were […]

Wednesday May 13th, 2015 We Have Lost Retired Police Service Dog Strike Strike – Badge #K9-02 (November 05, 2002 – May 02, 2015) Strike served the City of Kawartha Lakes Police Service from September 2004 to May 2011. During his time with the service he was utilized to locate lost or missing persons, track wanted […]

We would like to take a moment to acknowledge some community partners that have stepped up to assist recently. Without their contributions we would not be able to provide some of the services that we do. We would like to acknowledge the contributions of: Hallmark Canada – With the generous contribution of Hallmark Canada Larry […]

Sky Dietrich Well On Her Way to Pay It Forward Goal No one will ever be able to say that Sky Dietrich is not a woman of her word. Further to our story of last week (See KLPS Members Chip In To Buy Local Girl A New Bike, April 17th, 2015) and as promised, Sky […]

  Media Release Friday April 17th, 2015   KLPS Members Chip In To Buy Local Girl New Bike As Constable Scott Duffy surfed Facebook this week he read a post about a local 12 year old girl who had her bicycle stolen. Skye Dietrich worked most of last summer so that she could buy herself a […]

Extortion Scams Extortion scams occurring online are increasing. In 2013 the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) received 4,307 reports with 223 of these classified as victims with a total reported dollar loss of $92,174.44. So far in 2014 the CAFC has received 1936 complaints related to an Extortion pitch. 123 are classified as victims with a […]

Lottery Emails There has been an ever-growing number of scam lottery emails advising consumers they have hit the jackpot. We ask that you consider the following when you receive a solicitation of this kind. They do not notify winners by email. You cannot win without first buying a lottery ticket They do not randomly select […]