Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has terminated an investigation into a dog bite that caused a serious injury to a 40-year-old man during an arrest in Trent Hills in January.
According to preliminary inquiries from the SIU, Ontario Provincial Police and the Peterborough Police Service officers went to the man’s home to execute a warrant.
The SIU says that the officers’ emergency lights and the loud banging at the door agitated the man’s dogs, causing one of them to bite the man’s right hand.
The bite from the dog was said to have damaged blood vessels, requiring surgery.
In his report, Director of the Special Investigations Unit Joseph Martino says the man surrendered to police after the injury and was arrested without incident.
Martino stated that “there was patently nothing to investigate as far as the potential criminal liability of any police officer and the file has been closed.”
