As tax season rapidly approaches perpetrators of the CRA Tax Scam continue to ramp up their aggressive tactics in our area.  Kawartha Lakes Police are seeing an increase in the number of people contacting them with regards to the scam and trying to reassure themselves that they do not owe the Canada Revenue Agency money. […]

BANK INVESTIGATOR SCAM RESURFACES Police would like to make the public aware of a fraud scam that is making a come back in Ontario. The scam consists of suspect(s) contacting potential victims (mostly seniors) by phone advising that they require their assistance to catch a bank employee that “has been stealing money”. The victim is […]

Local elementary school student from both the Trillium Lakelands District School Board and the Kawartha Pineridge Haliburton Catholic School Board recently participated in the Think of Me (T.O.M) program and created some very creative messages around drinking and driving. Here is just a sampling of what they came up with. These bags and many others […]

Media Release  Thursday December 10th, 2015  A Lindsay woman has become the most recent victim of cold call telephone scams, after receiving a call that her son had been arrested. Police were contacted on December 9th, 2015 after a Lindsay woman responded to a telephone call indicating her son had been arrested. Unfortunately, police were […]

Media Release Friday November 27th, 2015 Fraud By Text Alert On Thursday November 26th, 2015 KLPS were contacted by a Lindsay resident who had been the subject of a fraudulent text which resulted in a Rogers account being opened in their name. The resident indicated that they received a text from [email protected] which allows a […]

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 […]