A month and a half after a woman was injured while in OPP custody following her arrest in Grand Bend, the province’s police watchdog has concluded there was no wrongdoing on the part of police.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says the 20-year-old was arrested at roughly 1 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 3 for being intoxicated in a public place. She was taken to the Grand Bend OPP detachment and placed in a cell where she struck the cell wall with her right hand.
She was taken to hospital and diagnosed with a hand injury.
On Wednesday, SIU director Tony Loparco announced that the woman’s injury was self-inflicted.
“As such, this incident does not fall within the mandate of the SIU and therefore this investigation has been terminated.”
The SIU is an arm’s-length agency that investigates reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.