News Release
Man’s Serious Injury Due to Collision, and not Interaction with Police; SIU Terminates Mississauga Investigation
Case Number: 18-OVI-152
The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, has terminated an investigation into the serious injury sustained last month in Mississauga by a 28-year-old man.
On the morning of May 23, 2018, in the area of Rathburn Road East and Garnetwood Chase, a man on foot attempted to enter an occupied van, and then ran after the van when it began moving forward. The driver of the van reported this to 911. The man on foot then stole a truck and pursued the van along Bough Beeches Boulevard. Moments later, the truck became involved in a collision with another vehicle. When police arrived, they located the man and after a brief interaction which involved deployment of a conducted energy weapons, they arrested him.
Director Loparco said, “The injury to the man occurred as a result of a collision prior to any contact with the police. Accordingly I have terminated the investigation into this incident.”
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