News Release

News Release

SIU Investigates Shooting Injury in Brampton

Case Number: 12-OFI-032   

Mississauga (27 January, 2012) --- Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing the circumstances surrounding the firearms injury of a man in Brampton this evening.

On January 27, 2012, the Peel Regional Police (PRP) contacted the SIU and reported the following;

• At approximately 6:50 p.m. on January 27, 2012, officers were conducting an investigation on a vehicle which drove into a residential driveway on Velvet Grass Lane, Brampton;
• The vehicle attempted to flee and an officer discharged his firearm;
• The male driver was apprehended and taken to Brampton Civic Hospital.  He had sustained a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the upper body.

 The SIU has assigned five investigators and two forensic investigators to probe the circumstances of this incident. 
Anyone who may have witnessed this incident is asked to contact the lead investigator at 416-622-1898 or 1-800-787-8529 extension 1898.

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