News Release
SIU Terminates Toronto Investigation into Injury to Woman Who Jumped from Window
Case Number: 18-TCI-021
The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, has terminated an investigation into the serious injury sustained by a 34-year-old woman last month in Toronto.
At approximately 10 a.m. on January 29, 2018, two Toronto Police Service officers attended an apartment to execute an outstanding warrant on a woman. The officers were informed by another individual that the woman was in a bedroom. When the woman saw the officers, she told them she had to change her clothes. Instead, she jumped out of the second floor bedroom window and landed on the ground below. She was transported by ambulance to hospital where she was diagnosed with a back injury.
Director Loparco said, “The woman’s injury was caused when she jumped out of a second floor window, and was not as a result of her interaction with the police. As such, this investigation has been terminated.”
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