News Release
SIU Terminates Peterborough Investigation
Case Number: 18-OCI-288
The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, has terminated an investigation into an incident that occurred in September of 2018 in Peterborough.
On the evening of September 27, 2018, Peterborough Police Service officers attended a two-storey rooming house to execute a search warrant. When a 20-year-old male on the second floor of the rooming house heard a loud bang, he ran towards the balcony and jumped to the ground below. He was located by police and transported to hospital by ambulance for treatment of a fractured heel.
Director Loparco said, “The evidence establishes that contact with the police had nothing to do with the man jumping from the balcony and injuring his heel. 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