pursuit_custody_injury · 2025-Q4
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 25-PCI-477
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The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the complainant and police and non-police witnesses, and video footage that captured the incident, gives rise to the following scenario. The subject officer chose not to interview with the SIU or authorize the release of their notes, as was their legal right. In the morning of Q4 2025, OPP received a call from hospital security reporting that a patient who had been discharged and escorted out of the hospital — the complainant — was in the parking lot, refusing to leave. The subject officer and a witness officer of the Central Region Emergency Response Team were dispatched. Upon arrival, the officers spoke with security and confirmed the information provided in the call. Security advised that the complainant had been discharged and provided with medication but refused to leave the hospital. They had to physically escort the complainant out of the building; however, the complainant still would not leave the property and wanted to return to the hospital. The complainant was trespassed. Hospital staff did not want the complainant back inside and wanted them removed. The briefing did not include information indicating that the complainant had a particular medical condition. The subject officer approached the complainant and informed them that they were required to leave the premises. The complainant stated that they wanted to return to the hospital because they were in pain. The complainant was advised that they could seek care at another hospital, that they had been trespassed from this one, and that they must either leave or be arrested and removed from the premises. During the conversation, the complainant moved away from the vehicle where they had been standing and proceeded in the direction of the hospital doors. As they walked past, the subject officer asked where they were going and took hold of their arm. As the subject officer began to turn the complainant around, an audible cracking sound was heard and the arm appeared to rotate in an abnormal manner consistent with having snapped. The complainant was permitted to re-enter the hospital so that their injury could be addressed. They were diagnosed with, and subsequently treated for, a comminuted and displaced fracture of the left distal humerus.
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