News Release
SIU Investigating Incident where a Peel Regional Police Cruiser Struck an Officer
Case Number: 16-OVI-225
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The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating an incident in which a Peel Regional Police officer was seriously injured when he was struck by a Peel cruiser.
Preliminary information suggests the following:
- Just before 10:00 a.m., a Peel police officer was working a paid duty assignment at the intersection of Mississauga Road and Barbertown Road.
- At the same time, police received a call about a break and enter in progress.
- Cruisers were responding to the call and were travelling north on Mississauga Road.
- At Barbertown Road, one cruiser struck the officer who was engaged in the paid duty assignment.
- The officer was rushed to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre with serious injuries.
Seven investigators and four forensic investigators have been assigned to investigate this incident.
The SIU is urging anyone who may have witnessed the incident to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529.
If you or someone you know is an affected person in need of support, please call the Affected Persons Program General Referral Line at 1-877-641-1897 or click here for more information: siu.on.ca/en/apc.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