Charges will not be laid against an Ontario Provincial Police officer following a Special Investigations Unit probe.
SIU Director Joseph Martino found no reasonable grounds to believe the officer committed a criminal offence after a 40-year-old woman suffered a broken right shoulder in downtown Trenton.
An officer was attempting to arrest a woman for outstanding warrants in an area behind the Royal Bank on February 27, 2024 when the woman fled.
The officer caught up to her, and pushed her to the ground.
The woman was handcuffed and taken to hospital.
Director Martino found that while on the ground, the woman refused to surrender her arms despite the officer’s repeated requests, and she struggled against the officer’s efforts as he wrestled her arms behind the back.
The injury, in his view, was the unfortunate result of countervailing forces being brought to bear on the complainant’s right arm, not any excessive force applied by the officer.
