OPP officer killed in motorcycle crash to get procession on Highway 401 - BERITAJA

A convoy for an OPP serviceman killed successful the statement of work Monday evening will return spot Thursday connected Highway 401.

The provincial constabulary unit said the convoy for Sgt. Brandon Malcolm will statesman about 1 p.m., leaving the Centre of Forensic Sciences successful Toronto to caput eastbound connected Highway 401 to Oshawa.

“Members of the nationalist who wish to show their support whitethorn subordinate first responders successful showing their respect from 1 of the galore overpasses on Highway 401 betwixt Keele Street and Thickson Road South,” constabulary said successful a news release.

“To thief guarantee everyone’s safety, please debar obstructing postulation aliases stopping connected the road to exit your vehicle.”

Malcolm, 33, died Monday aft his constabulary motorcycle collapsed connected Highway 401 successful Cobourg. He was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique said Malcolm “served his organization pinch dedication to duty, honour” and “made the eventual sacrifice.”

Malcolm is being remembered arsenic an serviceman who loved his occupation and the organization he served. He was besides a personnel of the Golden Helmets precision motorcycle team.

David Sabatini, president of the OPP Association, called the decease “devastating for our OPP family and our policing assemblage crossed the province.”

Former Toronto constabulary serviceman Sean Shapiro said losses successful policing are felt widely.

“Whenever there’s a nonaccomplishment successful the policing community, each constabulary officers consciousness it because it could person been them,” Shapiro told BERITAJA this week.

In Cobourg, residents expressed grief, pinch immoderate leaving flowers and offering condolences to Malcolm’s loved ones.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said his thoughts are pinch the officer’s family and each members of the policing community.

Police said two further constabulary vehicles were progressive successful a secondary collision nearby while responding to the crash, resulting successful 3 insignificant injuries.

OPP Sgt. Joe Brisbois said investigators are reviewing footage and interviewing witnesses arsenic the investigation remains successful its early stages.

— with files from Alessia Simona Maratta and Sean O’Shea