The director of the Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, has terminated an investigation into an interaction that occurred in March 2018 between a 44-year-old woman and Greater Sudbury Police Service (GSPS) officers.
At around 11:30 a.m. on March 11, GSPS officers attended a residence in the area of Bancroft Drive and The Kingsway for a suicide call, a press release from the SIU said.
Upon arrival, the officers formed grounds to apprehend the woman under the Mental Health Act. When the woman would not go with the officers, she was “grounded” and then handcuffed, the press release said. She was then transported to hospital.
“The medical evidence establishes the woman did not sustain a serious injury,” Loparco said. “Accordingly I have terminated the investigation into this incident.”
The SIU is an arm’s-length agency that investigates reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.
Under the Police Services Act, the director of the SIU must consider whether an officer has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident under investigation depending on the evidence, lay a criminal charge against the officer if appropriate or close the file without any charges being laid report the results of any investigations to the Attorney General.
