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vehicle_injury · 2026-Q1
In the early morning of February 2026, the subject officer sat stationary in their marked cruiser in a parking lot at the southeast corner of a major intersection. They and their passenger were manning a perimeter point at that location. At about 2:43 a.m., two vehicles travelled past their location at excessive speed, as if they were racing each other. The subject officer pulled onto the roadway and accelerated after the vehicles, intending to stop them in connection with their speed. One of the vehicles, with multiple passengers, including the affected person, continued at high speeds and crashed into other vehicles at a red light, resulting in the affected person suffering a fractured hip. The subject officer arrived on scene and arrested the driver for dangerous driving.
custody_injury · 2026-Q1
The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the affected person and police eyewitnesses, and video footage that largely captured the incident, gives rise to the following scenario. As was their legal right, neither subject officer agreed to interviews with the SIU. One of the subject officers did provide a written statement. In the late evening of early 2026, police officers were dispatched to a motor vehicle accident at an intersection in a residential area. The collision involved a single vehicle that had been stolen moments earlier. Witnesses to the collision reported that the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle – the affected person – had fled the area. The affected person had run from the site of the collision to a nearby residential street and ultimately made his way to the rear of a property where they hid in a backyard shed. A police dog unit was deployed to the area and eventually tracked the affected person to the shed. One of the officers who had been searching for the affected person called out to them but there was no response. The officer eventually opened the door to the shed and told the affected person to show their hands. When the affected person, lying on the ground, failed to do so, the officer discharged their CEW. As the affected person cried out in pain, the officer dragged them out of the shed, delivering a punch to the torso in the process. Other officers arrived on scene and joined in the arrest process. Repeated directions were given to the affected person to show and release their hands. The officer struck the affected person again in the torso and another officer punched them in the head or upper body area three times. Following another CEW discharge by the officer into the affected person’s back, their hands were controlled and handcuffed. The affected person was seen at hospital after their arrest and diagnosed with injuries.
pursuit_custody_injury · 2026-Q1
The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the affected person and police eyewitnesses, and video footage that largely captured the incident, gives rise to the following scenario. As was their legal right, the subject officer chose not to interview with the SIU or authorize the release of their notes. In the early afternoon of a day in early 2026, the affected person, while detained in a cell of a police detachment, reached into their underpants, retrieved a quantity of drugs and consumed them. About an hour later, they lapsed into medical distress with seizure-like symptoms. Custodial staff were quickly alerted to the affected person’s situation. They administered several doses of Narcan and summoned EMS. Paramedics arrived on scene and transported the affected person to hospital where they were treated for an overdose. The day before, acting on the strength of a warrant, two officers had arrested the affected person. One of the officers had conducted a pat-down search at the time, but failed to discover a body-pack around the affected person’s torso, which contained a plastic container of illicit substances. After being placed in a cruiser for transport to the detachment, the affected person was able to manipulate their handcuffed arms to retrieve the container from their pack and conceal it down the front of their underwear. At the detachment, the affected person revealed they were wearing the body-pack. It was removed from their possession and a quantity of methamphetamine was confiscated. A further pat-down search before the affected person was lodged in a cell failed to discover the container they were hiding.
custody_injury · 2025-Q4
The material events in question are clear on the evidence collected by the SIU and may briefly be summarized. In late 2025, the subject officer and the witness officer were dispatched to an apartment in the area of a city, following calls to police from the resident, the affected person. The affected person threatened to kill herself if police did not attend her residence and indicated that she had cut her wrists. The officers arrived at the address, where they were joined by paramedics. The first responders made their way to the apartment door. Finding it locked, the subject officer kicked it open. The affected person was in her bedroom at the time. She was highly agitated and belligerent with the officers. A cut was visible on her wrist. The officers handcuffed the affected person behind the back and were escorting her down a hallway in the apartment when the witness officer briefly pinned her against a wall as the affected person’s hostility escalated. The affected person turned and spat on the witness officer, and was taken to the floor by the officers in a prone position. The affected person screamed at the officers to kill her and banged her face on the floor about a half-dozen times, fracturing her nose in the process. The subject officer took hold of the affected person’s head to prevent her hurting herself. The affected person was seen at hospital after her arrest and ultimately diagnosed with a broken nose.
custody_injury · 2026-Q1
The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the affected person, the subject officer and other civilian eyewitnesses, gives rise to the following scenario. In the morning of early 2026, the subject officer was dispatched to the area of a domestic disturbance. On their arrival, the officer observed a male holding the affected person down on the roadway. Ordered to remove himself from the affected person, the male did so while explaining to the officer that she had damaged his property and assaulted him. The subject officer decided to arrest the affected person for assault and mischief. There followed a physical engagement between the three parties during which the subject officer used force against the affected person and the male. The affected person and the male were handcuffed and taken into custody. The affected person attended hospital following their release and was diagnosed with a concussion.
custody_injury · 2026-Q1
The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the affected person and police and non-police witnesses, and video footage that largely captured the incident, gives rise to the following scenario. As was their legal right, the subject officers chose not to interview with the SIU or authorize the release of their notes. In early 2026, the subject officers, in the company of other officers, attended at an apartment in the area of a city. A neighbouring tenant had called 911 to report the sounds of a woman screaming coming from the apartment. Officers knocked on the door and asked the woman to open it. She tried but was unable to open the door. She could be heard moaning in distress and saying that she had been choked. An officer retrieved a ram from her cruiser and the subject officer used it to break open the door. The woman was by the doorway and pointed in the direction of a hallway. The affected person appeared in the hallway. He was at the apartment in violation of a bail order. An officer ordered the affected person to put his hands behind his back. The affected person refused to do so and instead walked towards the officer. The officer grabbed a hold of the affected person and attempted to wrestle control of his arms behind his back. The affected person refused to release his arms. There followed a struggle during which the affected person was forced to the hallway floor and subjected to multiple punches by the officers, and the use of a CEW, before he was handcuffed behind the back. The affected person was taken into custody and transported to hospital on two occasions before he was eventually diagnosed with a broken rib.
custody_injury · 2026-Q1
The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the complainant and additional police and non-police witnesses, and video footage that captured the incident in part, gives rise to the following scenario. As was their legal right, the subject officer did not agree to an interview with the SIU or the release of their notes. In early 2026, police officers were dispatched to a residence in a area to report a person attempting to break into the residence. Two constables were the first on scene, arriving at about the same time. They were joined shortly by a police dog handler, the subject officer, and their dog. Additional officers arrived on scene and set up a perimeter around the house as the subject officer deployed their dog to locate the suspect. It was not long before the dog led the subject officer to the rear yard and a crawl space underneath a deck. The affected person was hiding in the crawl space, which was cluttered with stored items. They failed to come out and give any indication of their presence despite repeated direction from the subject officer for them to do so. With the dog still attached to the lead, the subject officer released the dog into the crawl space. The dog’s first foray into the space was unsuccessful. The subject officer released the dog into the crawl space again. On this occasion, the dog located the affected person under some items and bit into their left arm. The affected person gave no reaction. The subject officer approached their dog and the affected person and released the dog’s hold, after which the affected person was taken into custody. The affected person was transported to hospital and diagnosed with a fracture of the left elbow and dog bites to the left arm.
vehicle_injury · 2026-Q1
In the evening of early 2026, police officers were on the lookout for a vehicle being operated by someone who was possibly impaired. Police received information that a suspected impaired driver had left an area. About ten minutes later, an officer radioed that they had located the vehicle and were pursuing it. The driver did not stop for the officer. Instead, they led the officer on a chase during which they disregarded stop signs and traffic lights, and travelled well over the speed limit, at times on the opposite side of the road. Having crossed a bridge, the driver continued at pace and lost control of the vehicle, slamming into a utility pole at an intersection. The driver was transported to hospital from the scene and diagnosed with injuries. The officer was a few car lengths away from the driver at the time of the collision. They had tracked the vehicle over a distance of about three kilometres, at times well over the speed limit and, on at least two occasions, through red lights without first coming to a stop.
vehicle_injury · 2026-Q1
In the early morning of February 2026, the subject officer sat stationary in a marked cruiser in a parking lot at the southeast corner of a major intersection. The officer and their passenger were manning a perimeter point at that location. At about 2:43 a.m., two vehicles travelled past their location at excessive speed. The officer pulled onto the roadway and accelerated after the vehicles, intending to stop them in connection with their speed. With the driver of one vehicle were several passengers, including the affected person. The vehicles continued at speeds as high as 170 km/h. Approaching a major road, the driver came upon traffic stopped at a red light, applied their brakes but crashed into two vehicles. The affected person suffered a fractured hip in the collision. The officer arrived on scene and arrested the driver for dangerous driving.
custody_injury · 2026-Q1
In the evening of early 2026, officers from the Ottawa Police Service responded to a reported domestic disturbance in the area of Ottawa. They altered course to a nearby location following a related call about a male on the roof of a building. The subject officer was the first to arrive on scene, followed by two witness officers. The male on the roof, the affected person, was of unsound mind and had earlier called police reporting a break-in attempt at their residence. They exited their residence through a window and made their way to the building, ascending onto the roof via an exterior ladder. The subject officer and a witness officer attempted to persuade the affected person to come down safely. The affected person threatened to jump if not provided with a cigarette and, on several occasions, hung from a light bar attached to the top of the exterior wall. As negotiations were ongoing, a fire truck appeared on scene. The affected person eventually lost their grip on the light bar and fell to the ground, landing feet-first. They were transported to hospital and diagnosed with multiple fractures of both feet.
custody_death · 2024-Q4
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custody_death · 2023-Q1
custody_death · 2024-Q1
A person died from cardiovascular complications after being hospitalized for abdominal pain and undergoing surgery, before being transferred to a care center. The circumstances surrounding their death raise questions about the evaluation and monitoring of their cardiac condition during hospitalization.
custody_injury · 2024-Q1
A person died from complications related to Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, in the context of unintentional methotrexate poisoning, in Quebec. They had several medical antecedents that greatly weakened them. The circumstances surrounding the death raise concerns about the surveillance of signs of drug toxicity in patients with comorbidities and treated with methotrexate.
custody_death · 2023-Q1