SUDBURY -- The North Bay Police Service was not at fault when a man jumped out the window of a third-floor apartment during an arrest in April, Ontario's police watchdog has concluded.
Special Investigations Unit Director Joseph Martino has terminated an investigation into the serious injury sustained by the 38-year-old man on April 14.
The incident began in the evening, when two officers with the North Bay Police Service arrived at an apartment on Clarence Street.
They were there "to investigate the well-being of a man and to further investigate whether he was in breach of a judicial order," the SIU said in a news release Tuesday. "Officers knocked on the apartment door and the man answered."
At that point, the man told the officers he would be leaving the apartment, and then left the doorway to get changed.
"While officers waited in the hallway, the man jumped out of the third-floor bedroom window," the release said. "He was transported to hospital where he was determined to have a fractured pelvis and arms."
“Based on the SIU’s preliminary inquiries, there is patently nothing to further investigate as far as the potential criminal liability of any police officer is concerned in connection with the man’s injuries," Martino is quoted as saying in the release.
"Two officers, who had been sent to the unit to investigate the man’s well-being and a possible breach of a court order, were outside the apartment’s door in the hallway at the time the man decided to jump from the window.
"Consequently, the investigation is hereby discontinued, and the file is closed.”
