Police Watchdog Called In After OPP Find Two Injured at Point Clark Vehicle Fire
By Google News Investigations ·
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has invoked its mandate after two people were injured in an incident involving a vehicle fire in Point Clark on Saturday, Nov. 7.
South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police officers responded to a vehicle fire in a parking lot off Highway 21 in the Township of Huron-Kinloss, according to an OPP statement released Saturday evening. Officers found two injured people there, who were taken to hospital, the statement said.
The OPP notified the SIU, which invoked its mandate. The OPP said it would provide no further information and directed all questions to the SIU.
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West Region OPP had shared just after noon that there was an “increased police presence” on Highway 21 in Point Clark as South Bruce OPP conducted an investigation.
The SIU is the civilian agency that investigates incidents involving police officers in Ontario that result in death or serious injury, an allegation of sexual assault, or an officer firing a gun at a person.
The agency’s published criteria define a serious injury as one “likely to interfere with the person’s health or comfort” that is “not transient or trifling in nature,” such as one that leads to hospital admission or burns to a significant part of the body.
When the SIU invokes its mandate, its investigators have not decided that an officer did anything wrong. Its director decides at the end of an investigation whether there are grounds to lay criminal charges.
The OPP statement does not say what role, if any, police played before the fire, or how the two people were injured. It does not say how serious their injuries are, which hospital they went to, what time the incident happened or what caused the fire.
The SIU had not posted a release about the incident as of Saturday evening. The Current will update this story as information becomes available.
Originally published by Google News Investigations
