pursuit_custody_injury · 2025-Q4
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 25-PCI-496
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The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the subject officer and another police eyewitness, and video footage that largely captured the incident, gives rise to the following scenario. In the evening of late 2025, police officers, including the subject officer, were dispatched to a location in a town. A resident of the multi-unit location had contacted police to report concern with the wellbeing of a male – the affected person – causing a disturbance at the property. He had been talking to himself and threatening to kill someone. The subject officer arrived on scene, joined by other officers. The officers attended at a unit of the building and arrested the affected person on a warrant in effect for their arrest for breach of a probation order. They were handcuffed behind the back, escorted outside and searched by the officers beside a cruiser. A number of items were seized. The affected person was subsequently placed in the backseat of a cruiser and read their rights by an officer. The officer exited the cruiser, leaving the affected person alone. They and another officer returned to the unit to search the residence for firearms. Left alone in the cruiser, the affected person slipped their handcuffed arms below their legs and repositioned them to the front. They subsequently reached towards the crotch area of their pants, retrieved a bag and ingested a white substance it contained. Shortly after the affected person’s consumption of the substance, the subject officer began to monitor the affected person from outside the cruiser using the lights from their cruiser and a flashlight. The affected person brought their hands up to their mouth area on several occasions. Having concluded the search of the unit, an officer returned to their cruiser and checked on the affected person in the rear. The affected person was shaking and pale. Noting that the handcuffs were now to the front, and suspecting a drug overdose, the officer requested EMS. The affected person was removed from the cruiser, administered two doses of Narcan and placed in the recovery position pending the arrival of paramedics. EMS arrived and the affected person was taken to hospital and treated for drug overdose.
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