{"id":418660,"date":"2026-01-19T04:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418660\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:25:07","slug":"on-duty-opp-officer-charged-with-impaired-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418660\/","title":{"rendered":"On-duty OPP officer charged with impaired driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ontario Provincial Police constable with 17 years of service is facing drunk driving charges while on duty.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Georgian Bay OPP detachment began an investigation on Jan. 15. involving one of their members.<\/p>\n<p>They say 39-year-old Christopher Prout was arrested and charged with operation while impaired with alcohol and operation while impaired with a blood alcohol concentration above the legal threshold for impaired driving.<\/p>\n<p>They say the officer is scheduled to make a court appearance in Midland on Feb. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the officer has been suspended with pay, and the OPP Professional Standards Unit is conducting an internal investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ontario Provincial Police constable with 17 years of service is facing drunk driving charges while on duty.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-418660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}