Owen Sound Police News

Youth in Policing Initiative – Owen Sound Police Service
The Owen Sound Police Service is hiring part-time student positions through the Youth in Policing Initiative (YIPI), running from October 2025 to March 2026. Open to students aged 14–19, the program offers hands-on experience in community engagement, crime prevention, and police operations. Apply by October 10, 2025.

The Owen Sound Police Service is hiring full-time Team Leads for our Communications Centre. In this role, you’ll lead a team of Dispatchers, provide training, and perform dispatch duties. This position involves shift work, including days, nights, weekends, and holidays.

Applicants must have four years of experience in a 24-hour emergency communications setting. Strong leadership, communication skills, and a clear criminal record are required.

This position will remain posted until filled.  When applying please reference Job #2025-PS10.

The Owen Sound Police Service Board is pleased to announce that Dave Bishop has officially assumed the role of Deputy Chief of Police, effective September 8, 2025.

In total, over the course of the weekend, the Owen Sound Police responded to 100 calls for service and processed 32 Criminal Code offences and executed 7 arrested warrants.

On Tuesday July 15, 2025 just before 9:30 a.m. The Owen Sound Police Service, Owen Sound Fire Service and Grey County Paramedics responded to the intersection of 16^th Street and 16^th Avenue East, Owen Sound after a motor vehicle collision occurred.   

The driver of a Hyundai Tuscon, a 30 year-old Owen Sound woman, was taken by ambulance to Brightshores Hospital where she was treated for non-life- threatening injuries.  

On June 29^th, 2025, shortly after 11:00pm, the Owen Sound Police Service and Grey County Paramedics were dispatched to a fail to remain collision involving a pedestrian near the intersection of 1^st Avenue West and 11^th Street West.

A Break and Enter occurred at a downtown Owen Sound business during the early morning hours of Sunday, June 15, 2025.  Seven different individuals entered the business over a two hour period and stole various merchandise while also causing significant damage to the store. Three of the seven suspects have been arrested by the Owen Sound Police Service.

On Tuesday, June 10, the Owen Sound Police Service is proud to once again host the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR) in support of Special Olympics Ontario.

OSPS members, local Special Olympics athletes, along with Saugeen Shores Police Service, Hanover Police Service, West Grey Police Service, and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will be walking and running routes across Grey and Bruce counties in Southampton, Hanover, Durham, and Chatsworth.

The Criminal Investigation Branch of the Owen Sound Police Service has arrested and charged an employee of the Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board.