Windsor police officer cleared of wrongdoing in man's fall and injury
The incident took place last November
The independent agency that investigates police officers for possible criminal wrongdoing has cleared a Windsor Police Service officer in a fall on Glengarry Avenue.
The case dates back to November of last year when a man entered the building at 333 Glengarry without permission.
Aware of the police presence in the building, the man fled to an upstairs unit where he climbed through a window to scale down, according to a news release issued by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU).
In the process, he fell to the ground and fractured his left knee.
Police then arrested him and took him to the hospital.
The SIU investigates situations in which possible criminal wrongdoing by an officer leads to the death, serious injury or sexual assault of a person or when an officer discharges a firearm at a person.
But in the case in question, the unit's director found that the man fell of his own accord.
"On this record, there was patently nothing to investigate as far as the potential criminal liability of any police officer in connection with the man's fall," the SIU wrote in a news release posted to its website.