SIU says no criminal offence committed by Hamilton officers in December 2021

The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says it has found that two Hamilton police officers committed no criminal offence in connection with the arrest and injury of a 26-year-old man in December of 2021.

In the morning hours of December 28, 2021, Hamilton police responded to a break and enter in progress at a home on Sherman Avenue South.

Officers saw a man attempting to flee the home in a vehicle. An officer blocked the vehicle and the man left on foot. He was arrest a short distance away.

The man was later taken to hospital where he was diagnosed with a fractured right clavicle.

The Director of the SIU, Joseph Martino, says the officers “conducted themselves lawfully in their engagement with the man, notwithstanding the injury he suffered in the process.”

The file has now been closed.