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Halton Police Service 2024 Annual Report

The Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) today officially released its 2024 Annual Report to members of the public, community partners, and key stakeholders. The milestone 50th anniversary online-only edition is available here or at www.haltonpolice.ca via the top rotating banner.

Click here to watch Chief Tanner’s message to Halton residents.

This year’s report shows that the HRPS responded to 139,119 calls for service in 2024, a slight increase of 0.16 per cent over the year prior. While some...

Grimsby Man Charged in Human Trafficking Investigation

The Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) has made an arrest and laid multiple charges as a result of a two month Human Trafficking Investigation.

In April 2025, the HRPS Human Trafficking Unit entered into an investigation with the Peel Regional Police Service and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Intelligence Led Joint Forces Human Trafficking Team (IJFS). During the investigation two adult females were identified as being trafficked by the accused throughout Ontario during various periods...

Additional Victims Sought Following an Indecent Act Investigation in Georgetown

The Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) has arrested a male following an Indecent Act committed in Georgetown.

On June 1, 2025, at 7:40 pm an adult female was seated on a bench adjacent to a secluded public trail system in the area of the Credit River and Mountainview Road South, known locally as Hungry Hollow, when the suspect approached the victim from behind. Sensing someone close by the victim turned around to find the suspect engaged in an indecent act. The victim fled and contacted...

Further Victims Sought After Male Arrested For An Indecent Act in Milton

The Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) has arrested and charged an adult male in Milton.

On March 23, 2025 at 11:30 pm a male suspect attended the Shoppers Drug Mart located at 6951 Derry Road and approached a female inquiring about a product in the store. During conversation the suspect showed the female an image of the product on his cell phone before changing the screen to a digital pornographic image of a male committing an indecent act.

The HRPS was contacted and officers with the 1...

Five males charged following camera store robbery in Oakville

The Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) has arrested and charged five males following a robbery at a camera store in Oakville.

On Friday, May 16, 2025 at approximately 1:40 P.M., officers were called to Henry’s camera store on Hyde Park Gate in Oakville, following reports that multiple males armed with hammers had smashed display cases and stole merchandise. The suspects fled the scene in a white Acura, which was later determined to be stolen out of Toronto, and headed eastbound on Dundas...