The province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has determined an OPP officer did not commit a crime in relation to an incident in Orillia in February.
Shortly after 5 a.m. Feb. 15, Orillia OPP responded to the report of an unwanted person at an apartment on Barrie Road.
The 60-year-old woman, “who was in the bathtub, did not or could not leave due to intoxication and an officer removed and arrested her,” the SIU stated in its report.
The woman was taken to the Orillia OPP detachment and put in a cell to sober up. Later in the day, she complained of a sore shoulder, so she was taken to Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital, where she was “cleared of any injuries.”
On Feb. 28, the woman contacted Orillia OPP and said she had suffered a fractured humerus as a result of her arrest 13 days earlier. That’s when the SIU got involved.
SIU director Joseph Martino “found no reasonable grounds” to believe the officer “committed a criminal offence in connection with the serious injuries suffered” by the woman during her arrest.
“While director Martino accepted the officer caused the woman’s right shoulder dislocation and fracture when he pulled her from the tub, there were no reasonable grounds to believe the officer comported himself other than lawfully,” the report stated.
The full report can be found here.
