No charges for OPP officer after woman suffers broken collar

When police officers are involved in incidents where someone has been seriously injured, dies or alleges sexual assault, the Special Investigations Unit has the statutory mandate to conduct independent investigations to determine whether a criminal offence took place.

No charges for OPP officer after woman suffers broken collar

Postby Thomas » Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:32 pm

No charges for OPP officer after woman suffers broken collarbone

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has wrapped up their investigation into an arrest in Fort Frances, which left a 29-year-old woman with a fractured collarbone.

The OPP officer in question will not face charges as a result. The SIU’s report says they were notified of the incident on September 27, 2021 at 2:17 p.m.

The OPP says the 29-year-old woman was arrested on September 27, 2021 at 2:16 a.m. for Trespassing by Night. The OPP’s dispatch report said officers were sent to Walker Avenue, where two people were found going through vehicles. A male was also arrested at the scene.

The SIU’s report says the complainant protested her arrest and refused to surrender her arms to be handcuffed, which resulted in the two falling onto a driveway. Afterwards, the 29-year-old complained of a sore shoulder and was taken to the La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances.

The complainant was later sent back to the police station due to staffing issues. She later returned to the hospital for an x-ray, where a fractured left clavicle was confirmed. The OPP says the fall likely resulted in the two fractures.

The SIU says there are no reasonable grounds to charge the officer, as the Criminal Code states police officers are immune from criminal liability for force used in the course of their duties, provided such force was reasonably necessary.

The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault or the discharge of a firearm. Their work will consider whether the officer has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident.

The SIU considers a serious injury as an injury that causes hospitalization, a fracture to the skull or to a limb, rib or vertebra, significant burns, a person loses a portion of their body, they experience a loss of vision or hearing, or the injury interferes with their health or comfort.

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SIU Closes Investigation Into Walkerton Arrest

Postby Thomas » Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:32 pm

The province’s Special Investigations Unit has closed its probe into an incident in Walkerton nearly one year ago when a woman was injured during the course of her arrest.

According to a release from the SIU, Ontario Provincial Police officers responded to a call about a woman in distress on Feb. 21, 2021.

The SIU says police attempted to apprehend the 55-year-old woman under the Mental Health Act, and as one officer took hold of each of her arms she kicked out towards the officers.

According to the SIU, the woman was then brought to the floor in a prone position and officers wrestled control of her right arm behind her back and handcuffed it, followed by her left.

The woman was then taken by paramedics to hospital where she was diagnosed and treated for a dislocated right elbow.

The Director of the Special Investigations Unit Joseph Martino found no reasonable grounds to believe an OPP officer committed a criminal offence in connection to the woman’s injury suffered during the apprehension, a release says.

“Director Martino found that the officers were entitled to use a measure of force to subdue and control the woman, who was resisting arrest,” a Jan. 26 news release from the SIU explains. “While Director Martino accepted that the woman’s injury occurred in the process of these actions, he was not reasonably persuaded that the force used by the officers was disproportionate to the task at hand. Accordingly, the file has been closed.”

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