News Release
No Basis to Lay Charges in Relation to Collingwood Interaction
Case Number: 18-PCI-302
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In the morning hours of October 8, 2018, Ontario Provincial Police officers attended an apartment building in Collingwood to check on the well-being of a 30-year-old man. The man refused them entry into his room and told them he was armed with knives. As two officers used a firetruck’s aerial bucket to get to the man’s bedroom window, other officers entered the bedroom using a battering ram. CEW and ARWEN discharges failed, and the man jumped through the window towards the aerial bucket. The officers in the bucket grabbed the man to prevent him from falling, but they could not get a firm grip and the man fell to the ground. The Interim Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Joseph Martino, has determined there are no reasonable grounds to lay criminal charges in this case.
Full Director’s Report (with Incident Narrative, Evidence, and Analysis & Director’s Decision):https://www.siu.on.ca/en/directors_reports.php.
The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials (police officers as well as special constables with the Niagara Parks Commission and peace officers with the Legislative Protective Service) that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person. All investigations are conducted by SIU investigators who are civilians. Under the Special Investigations Unit Act, the Director of the SIU must
- consider whether the official has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident under investigation
- depending on the evidence, cause a criminal charge to be laid against the official where grounds exist for doing so, or close the file without any charges being laid
- publicly report the results of its investigations