Ontario’s police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), has launched an investigation into the death of a 32-year-old man from Barrie.
According to Barrie police, officers arrested a 32-year-old man from Barrie on June 22 at approximately 2:30 p.m., and transported him to the Barrie Police Services building. Police say during the booking process the man went into medical distress, and was immediately transported to the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre by Simcoe County paramedics, where a short time later he was pronounced deceased.
Get daily National news
Police notified the SIU, which invoked its mandate to investigate deaths, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault involving police officers.
Barrie police say as a result, they will not be able to provide any further information, as the case is now being investigated by the SIU.
- DTES grocery store uncertain of future after spending thousands on security
- Alberta on track to see the most traffic deaths in a decade: ‘Disaster waiting to happen’
- B.C. child sexual exploitation case leads to rescue of 5 children in the Philippines
- Nick Reiner won’t face death penalty in parents’ killings, prosecutor says
Comments
Comments closed.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.
Please see our Commenting Policy for more.