News Release
Man Jumped from Roof; SIU Terminates Investigation in London
Case Number: 18-OCI-183
The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, has terminated an investigation into the serious injury sustained by a 34-year-old man last month in London.
At approximately 5:45pm on June 17, 2018, London Police Service officers attended the man’s residence in the area of Quebec Street and Dundas Street in relation to a domestic situation. The man had barricaded himself in the second floor unit of the residence. A London Police Service negotiator was brought in and spoke to him by phone for approximately forty minutes before the man exited from a second floor window onto a first floor overhang. He jumped from the roof and landed on the ground below. He was transported to hospital for treatment of a broken ankle.
Director Loparco said, “The injury to the man occurred as a result of his own actions when he jumped off the second floor roof of his residence. Further nothing that was said to him influenced his decision to jump nor were there any police officers near him at that time. 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