Sgt Brandon Malcolm funeral at Cobourg Community Centre Wednesday
Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Brandon Malcolm, known as Sgt Brandon Malcolm, will be honored Wednesday at a funeral service at the Cobourg Community Centre after he was killed in a motorcycle crash on Highway 401. The service starts at 10:30 a.m. and is not open to the general public for in-person attendance.
Cobourg Community Centre service
Malcolm, 33, died on April 27 after crashing while operating a police motorcycle on Hwy. 401 near Burnham Street North in Cobourg. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He joined the OPP in 2020 and spent his entire career with the Northumberland detachment.
The service will bring together Malcolm’s family and guests, members of the OPP, emergency services and officials. Thomas Carrique described the OPP response after Malcolm’s death as “grieving this tremendous loss.”
D’Arcy Street viewing area
The OPP set out a procession plan to let the public watch from outside the service site. The funeral cortege was expected to start around 8:30 a.m. and travel east on Hwy. 401 from Stevenson Road South in Oshawa before exiting at Division Street in Cobourg and arriving at the Cobourg Community Centre around 9:30 a.m.
Starting at around 9 a.m., OPP officers were to march from Kerr Street north on D’Arcy Street to the Cobourg Community Centre. Public viewing on the west side of D’Arcy Street was to be pedestrian-only, with no public vehicles permitted.
Livestream at Victoria Hall
People unable to attend in person can watch the funeral by livestream, including a livestream at the Concert Hall at Victoria Hall in Cobourg. The arrangement gives the public a way to follow the service even though seating inside the Cobourg Community Centre is restricted.
Malcolm also served as a member of the OPP’s Golden Helmets, as an auxiliary member of the Toronto Police Service and as a combat engineer with the Canadian Armed Forces. That service record, along with the procession and livestream plans, turns Wednesday’s funeral into the main public moment after his death on April 27.
