As of January 1, 2016, drivers – including cyclists – must stop and yield the whole roadway at pedestrian crossovers, school crossings and other locations where there is a crossing guard. These new rules do not apply to pedestrian crosswalks at intersections with stop signs or traffic signals, unless a school crossing guard is present. […]

Media Release Thursday August 25th , 2016   Text With 911 Goes Live In Kawartha Lakes If you are part of the deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or speech impaired (DHHSI) community you will now have the ability to text to 911 (T9-1-1) in the City of Kawartha Lakes. During an emergency, T9-1-1 provides the […]

CRA Tax Scam Warning Issued Again After Another Falls Victim City of Kawartha Lakes Police are once again reminding residents that our area is still being targeted by scammers using the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) tax scam, after a woman lost $2100.00 to the scam. On Tuesday June 7th, 2016 City of Kawartha Lakes Police […]

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/