News Release

SIU Concludes Investigation into Man Injured During Arrest at Brampton Hospital

Case Number: 23-OCI-463   

Mississauga, ON (7 March, 2024) ---
The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Joseph Martino, found no reasonable grounds to believe a Peel Regional Police Service officer committed a criminal offence in connection with a broken nose suffered by a 60-year-old man during his arrest in Brampton. On November 7, 2023, the officer intervened to assist security guards at Brampton Civic Hospital as the man was acting unruly and violent. The man bit the officer and the officer kneed the man. The man continued to struggle and the officer kneed the man again, handcuffing him.
 
Director Martino accepted that while one or more of the initial set of knee strikes delivered by the officer caused the man’s nose to break, he did not believe the injury was attributable to any unlawful conduct on the part of the officer.  

Full Director’s Report (with Incident Narrative, Evidence, and Analysis & Director’s Decision):

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

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Kristy Denette, siu.media@ontario.ca
SIU Communications/Service des communications, UES