News Release
SIU Terminates Toronto Investigation
Case Number: 18-TCI-359
The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, has terminated an investigation into an interaction that occurred last month between Toronto Police Service officers and a 43-year-old man.
In the early morning hours of December 15, 2018, a woman called police after hearing a man outside her apartment unit hallway yell that he had been stabbed. As a result, police officers were dispatched to the Davenport Road apartment building. When the man who had been injured stepped out of the elevator and onto the ground floor, an officer was standing in front of the elevators. The man put his hands up in the air, and held his right foot off the floor to favour it. He was taken to the floor and handcuffed while police investigated the stabbing report. The man was taken to hospital and diagnosed with a fractured right tibia and fibula.
Director Loparco said, “The evidence is clear that the man was already injured prior to any police interaction with him. 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