Media Advisory: Ontario's Police Chiefs to Launch Public Awareness Campaign Against Growing, Sophisticated Threats Posed by Tax, Utilities, and Other Scams

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Feb. 3, 2016) - The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) will kick off its annual Crime Prevention Campaign by raising the alarm over increasingly sophisticated scams that are defrauding victims of millions of dollars.

Date:	Thursday, February 4, 2016
Location:	Toronto Centre Tax Services Office, Canada Revenue Agency,
	1 Front Street West, Toronto
Time:	10:00 am

Speakers:

• Chief Jeff McGuire
  Niagara Regional Police Service and
  President of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police
• Deputy Chief James Ramer
  Toronto Police Service
• Vince Pranjivan, Assistant Commissioner, Ontario Region
  Canada Revenue Agency

Also in attendance will be representatives from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and other police services as well as campaign sponsors Accident Support Services International Ltd., Canadian Security Association, Central 1 Credit Union in cooperation with Credit Unions of Ontario, Humber School of Social and Community Services, Insurance Bureau of Canada, Interac Association, the Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corporation, The Investment Funds Institute of Canada, and Trace Identified.

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The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police is the voice of Ontario's Police Leaders.

Members of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police serve their communities as the senior police leaders in municipal, regional, provincial national, and First Nations police services across Ontario.

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