Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit says no charges are warranted for an OPP officer connected with the death of a 36-year-old man in Quinte West.
The SIU says on May 5, an officer was on patrol when they spotted a man leaning over the railing on the Dundas Street East Bridge in Trenton.
The officer pulled up beside the man and exited his cruiser to speak with him and concluded that the man was intoxicated and a danger to himself.
He also learned that there was a warrant out for the man’s arrest and he was taken to the police detachment.
While lodged in a cell, the man fell down and hit his head on the floor.
A civilian custodian assigned to monitor the man’s time in cells advised police that the man was unresponsive in cells.
Officers began to administer first aid.
Continued efforts at resuscitation were unsuccessful, and the man was pronounced dead.
The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Joseph Martino, said there was no basis for proceeding with criminal charges in this case.
The file has been closed.
The full report can be found at the SIU’s website.
