custody_injury · 2026-Q1
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 26-OCI-007
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The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the complainant and other witnesses (police and non-police), gives rise to the following scenario. As was his legal right, the subject officer chose not to interview with the SIU. He did authorize the release of his notes. Shortly before noon, in early 2026, police officers responded to a call in Sudbury. A 911 call had been received suggesting a potentially violent disturbance inside a vehicle. The caller did not communicate directly with the call-taker but the police were able to use her cell phone to approximate a location from where she was calling. An officer found the vehicle in the area. He spoke to two females and determined that there were grounds to believe that one of them had been assaulted by the complainant. Fearing his imminent arrest, the complainant, inside the rear of the vehicle, exited and fled the scene. He ran a short distance and entered into the rear, enclosed deck of a house in the area, where he sought to conceal himself in a crawl space under a staircase. A police dog handler – the subject officer – and his dog arrived at the site of the vehicle from which the complainant had fled. Joined by other officers, the subject officer and his dog initiated a track of the complainant. He was not hard to find. The officers followed a set of footprints in the snow to the house, spoke to one of the homeowners briefly, and entered the rear deck. The complainant was quickly located inside a crawl space. The subject officer released his police dog. The dog approached the complainant and bit his right hand. With the dog still latched onto his hand, the complainant was removed from the crawl space and positioned on the floor in a prone position. He was handcuffed behind the back and the dog separated from his right hand. The complainant was transported to hospital after his arrest and diagnosed with a fracture of the small finger on the right hand.
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