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**** HRP Media Release ROBBERY AT ROBIE STREET SHELL GAS/NEEDS CONVENIENCE At 10:49 p.m., Halifax Regional Police were dispatched to 5450 Inglis Street, Halifax, the Irving Gas Station, for a robbery in progress. Suspect indicated he had a firearm during the commission of the offence. No injuries. Suspect described as a white male, believed to...

**** HRP Media Release Human Trafficking Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline The hotline offers a confidential, multilingual service, operating to connect victims and survivors of forced prostitution and forced labour with social services and/or law enforcement in communities across Canada. Call 1.833.900.1010, 24 hours a day/7 days per week. Reporting human trafficking If you witness suspicious activity you think...

**** RCMP Media Release Statement from the Nova Scotia RCMP to provide context to recently unsealed information The release of previously redacted or sealed information contained in Operation H-Strong Informations to Obtain (ITOs) has resulted in a number of questions. Some of the unsealed and released information is being interpreted as corroborated facts without full...

**** NS SPCA Media Release Yarmouth Pair Charged with Animal Cruelty Jennifer Hurlburt, 36, and Matthew Hart, 34, of Yarmouth, have been charged under the Animal Protection Act of Nova Scotia under Section 26 (2) for permitting an animal to be in distress. On June 25, 2020, a Nova Scotia SPCA Enforcement Officer responded to...

**** HRP Media Release Police Investigate a Stabbing Call – Halifax At 8:34 p.m., 29th of July, Halifax Regional Police responded to a report of a teenage female with a stab wound that was in a physical altercation with an adult male in the 100 block of Carnation Crest Halifax.​ Patrol officers responded locating the injured female (15...

**** HRP Media Release Missing Person: Mariette MCCROSSIN (age 82) Update via HRP HRP located the Missing Person: Mariette MCCROSSIN in good health, just before 9:00 p.m., near Prince Arthur Road Dartmouth. HRP thanks the Public and Media for their assistance with locating Mrs. MCCROSSIN ​...

**** CAF Release Lieutenant-General Christopher Coates assumes responsibility of Canadian Joint Operations Command A transfer of command authority ceremony took place in which Lieutenant-General Christopher Coates assumed responsibility for Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC) from Major-General Bill Seymour, who has been Acting Commander of CJOC since June 26, 2020. The Chief of the Defence Staff...

**** CBSA Media Release (Officers from CBSA Halifax Marine Operations pictured with approximately 270 kg of suspected cocaine, seized from a vessel in Halifax, NS on July 18, 2020.) The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Atlantic Region, announced the seizure of 270 kg of suspected cocaine onboard a vessel attempting to dock at a yacht...

**** RCMP Media Release Charges are pending against a 21-year-old Shelburne man after he intentionally set a fire inside a seniors’ home last evening. The fire was reported initially as a dispute, where the 21-year-old was behaving erratically, and continued to escalate to the point where he poured gasoline in the apartment he was visiting...

**** SiRT Media Release RCMP Officer Cleared in North Kentville Crash ————————————————————— The province’s Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT) has concluded that no charges will be laid against an RCMP officer who pursued a motor vehicle last August. At approximately 2:20 a.m., on August 25, 2019 an officer with the New Minas Detachment noticed a...