OPP cruiser. Image: Randy Thoms

OPP in the Rainy River District handled 224 calls for service in the past week.

RIDE checks and the provision of eTickets to vehicles accounted for almost 40 per cent of those calls.

Officers were involved in 42 RIDE checks that resulted in no one being charged with impaired driving.

Police also responded to four assaults, two thefts, and two landlord-tenant issues.

A total of twenty charges under the Criminal Code and 31 under the Highway Traffic Act were issued

Here is a breakdown of all occurrences in the Rainy River District between Monday, November 21 and Sunday, November 27

· eTicket – Vehicle – 44
· R.I.D.E. – 42
· Motor vehicle collision – 13
· Police information – 7
· Police assistance – 6
· Liquor licence act – 6
· Traffic complaint – 6
· Mental health act – 6
· Community services – 5
· Traffic enforcement – H.T.A. – 5
· Warrants – 5
· Unwanted person – 4
· Domestic dispute – 4
· eTicket – Person – 4
· Trespass to property act – 4
· Person Well-Being Check – 4
· Assault – 4
· Person check-in – 3
· Fire – 3
· Bail violations – 3
· Animal complaint – 3
· Noise complaint – 3
· Prevent breach of peace – 2
· Property check – 2
· Theft – 2
· Fingerprints (no Record Check) – 2
· Suspicious person – 2
· Family dispute – 2
· 911 call/911 hang-up – 2
· Phone calls – 2
· Property related – 2
· Landlord tenant problem – 2
· Traffic hazard – vehicle/debris/animal/pedestrian – 1
· Break and Enter business/residential/other – 1
· Disturb the peace – 1
· Other provincial statutes – 1
· Shoplift – 1
· Fraud – 1
· Neighbour dispute – 1
· Suspicious vehicle – 1
· Possess stolen property – 1
· Alarm – 1
· Weapons – 1
· Assist other police agency – 1
· Escort – 1
· Stolen vehicle – 1
· Drug offences – 1
· Trouble with youth – 1
· eTicket – business/organization – 1
· Indecent acts – 1
· Harassment – 1
· Motor vehicle – abandoned – 1