Communiqué de presse
SIU Terminates Investigation into Collision Near Brockville
Numéro du dossier: 19-PVI-140
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L’UES met fin à une enquête sur une collision près de Brockville
The Interim Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Joseph Martino, has terminated an investigation into a collision that occurred last month near Brockville.
Shortly after midnight on June 19, 2019, a 31-year-old man was driving his pickup truck westbound on Highway 401 from the Town of Prescott to Brockville. He drove past an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) vehicle with its emergency lights activated. A few minutes later, the man made a U-turn in the middle of the highway but failed to negotiate the turn and struck a guard rail. The pickup truck came to a stop in the grassy median of the highway. The man got out of his pickup truck and walked in the middle of the eastbound lane of Highway 401 where he was struck by a tractor trailer. Within a few minutes, officers arrived on scene and the man was transported to hospital where he was diagnosed with a dislocated shoulder.
Interim Director Martino said, “It is apparent based on the SIU’s preliminary inquiries that there is patently nothing to investigate as far as the potential criminality of any police officer is concerned in connection with this matter. Shortly before the collision, and unknown to the man, the pickup truck he had been driving had been briefly pursued by an OPP officer when the pickup truck failed to stop for a RIDE checkpoint. The pursuit had been terminated by the time the man lost control of his vehicle. On this record, it is evident that no police officer caused or contributed to the man’s collision in any fashion that could attract criminal liability. Consequently, the investigation is hereby discontinued and the file closed.”
L’UES est un organisme gouvernemental indépendant qui enquête sur la conduite d’agents (agents de police municipaux, régionaux et provinciaux, agents du Service de police Nishnawbe-Aski, agents spéciaux de la Commission des parcs du Niagara et agents de la paix du Service de protection de l’Assemblée législative) qui pourrait avoir entraîné un décès, une blessure grave, la perpétration de violences sexuelles ou la décharge d’une arme à feu sur une personne. Toutes les enquêtes sont menées par des enquêteurs de l'UES qui sont des civils. En vertu de la Loi sur l'Unité des enquêtes spéciales, le directeur de l'UES doit :
- considérer si un agent a commis une infraction criminelle en lien avec l'incident faisant l'objet de l'enquête;
- selon le dossier de preuve, faire porter une accusation criminelle contre l'agent, s'il existe des motifs de le faire, ou clôre le dossier sans faire porter d'accusations;
- rendre compte publiquement des résultats de ses enquêtes.