The Ontario police oversight agency says it has found no reasonable grounds to believe an Ottawa police officer committed a criminal offence after a prisoner…
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He was returned to the cell and at about 2:30 a.m. a special constable conducting cell checks found the man on the floor with laboured breathing. When the special constable was unable to revive the man, other officers were called and provided emergency first-aid. Paramedics took charge of the man’s care and he was transported to hospital, intubated, and treated for altered consciousness and hypoglycemia brought about by an insulin overdose.
In a decision released Friday, Special Investigations Unit Director Joseph Martino wrote that he found no reasonable grounds to believe that the officer responsible for the care of prisoners at the time “transgressed the limits of care prescribed by the criminal law in connection with the man’s time in custody.”