Ontario’s Particular Investigations Unit (SIU) has cleared an OPP canine handler of any wrongdoing following an incident involving the arrest of a girl in Wauzhushk Onigum Nation this summer time.
The incident occurred on June 29, when officers with the OPP and Treaty Three Police Service responded to reviews {that a} 39-year-old woman had operated a automobile whereas intoxicated and had threatened suicide.
The SIU says officers went right into a wooded space to find the girl in Wauzhushk Onigum Nation. The group, also referred to as Rat Portage, is simply south of the Metropolis of Kenora in northwestern Ontario.
“After the officers, together with a canine handler and his canine, had travelled about two kilometres, they entered into an space of waist-high grass. Shortly thereafter, the sounds of a feminine screaming have been heard. The police canine had positioned and bitten into the left calf of the girl,” the SIU says in a information launch issued Friday.
“The lady was transported from the world by ambulance to hospital.”
The SIU is an unbiased company that investigates the conduct of cops in incidents that will have resulted in loss of life, critical damage, the discharge of a firearm or allegations of sexual assault.
“There have been no cheap grounds to imagine that the OPP canine handler dedicated a legal offence in reference to the girl’s arrest and damage,” says the SIU’s report.
