{"id":7766,"date":"2017-11-04T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2017-11-04T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:00:40","slug":"no-criminal-charges-warranted-after-man-fatally-shot-self-in-presence-of-ssm-police-service-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/04\/no-criminal-charges-warranted-after-man-fatally-shot-self-in-presence-of-ssm-police-service-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"No Criminal Charges Warranted after Man Fatally Shot Self in Presence of SSM Police Service Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Nov 4, 2017 @ 08:05<\/b><\/div>\n<div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div>The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, has determined there are no reasonable grounds to lay criminal charges against a Sault Ste. Marie Police Service officer in relation to the death of a 40-year-old man who shot himself on May 29, 2016.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Director\u2019s Report was delivered to the Attorney General, as is required by law under the <i>Police Services Act<\/i>. The Attorney General has directed that the document be posted online. It can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/special-investigations-unit-siu-directors-reports\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/special-investigations-unit-siu-directors-reports.<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The SIU is an arm\u2019s length agency that investigates reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault. Under the Police Services Act, the Director of the SIU must<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>consider whether an officer has committed a criminal offence \u00a0in connection with the incident under investigation<\/li>\n<li>depending on the evidence, lay a criminal charge against the officer if appropriate or close the file without any charges being laid<\/li>\n<li>report the results of any investigations to the Attorney General.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 4, 2017 @ 08:05 The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, has determined there are no reasonable grounds to lay criminal charges against a Sault Ste. Marie Police Service officer in relation to the death of a 40-year-old man who shot himself on May 29, 2016. The Director\u2019s Report was delivered to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[975],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district","tag-special-investigations-unit"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 03:42:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7767,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions\/7767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}