{"id":520922,"date":"2026-03-07T18:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520922\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:31:13","slug":"ottawa-police-mourn-death-of-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520922\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa police mourn death of member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ottawa police announced Saturday that the service was mourning the death of one of its members on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe death is not believed to be suspicious and is being investigated by the Ontario Provincial Police, as is standard practice,\u201d the force said in a release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post gave no further details on the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis is difficult news for our Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOur hearts are with his family, friends and colleagues and supports are being put in place for them and all members affected by this loss,\u201d the release states.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, confidential help is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Call or text 988.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Our website is your destination for up-to-the-minute news, so make sure to bookmark our <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:homepage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">homepage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sign up for our newsletters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">sign up for our newsletters<\/a>\u00a0so we can keep you informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa police announced Saturday that the service was mourning the death of one of its members on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[205497,49,48,12236,20739,194907,205498],"class_list":["post-520922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ashley-fraser","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ontario-provincial-police","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-police","tag-standard-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520922","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=520922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}