A Special Investigations Unit (SIU) investigation into an incident in January where a man fell through the roof of a greenhouse has been terminated.
Back on January 23rd, the man had fled the hospital where he had been admitted under the Mental Health Act.
The SIU says he made his way to the grounds of the nearby vacant John Diefenbaker Secondary School.
According to the SIU, as a police cruiser approached, the man climbed to the top of the school’s greenhouse to evade capture, but the glass panel below him gave way and the man fell to the floor below.
The SIU says, notwithstanding his fall and injury, the man picked himself up, left the greenhouse and attempted to hide in the school’s basement. He was quickly located by Hanover Police officers and transported to hospital for treatment of injuries.
SIU Director Joseph Martino says in a statement, “Based on the SIU’s preliminary inquiries, I am satisfied there is patently nothing to investigate as far as the potential criminal liability of any police officer is concerned in connection with the man’s injury. When he climbed to the roof of the greenhouse and fell, no police officer was in the vicinity. Accordingly, the investigation is hereby discontinued and the file is closed.”
The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person. All investigations are conducted by SIU investigators who are civilians.