The province’s Special Investigations Unit has ended its probe into an incident in which a man fell to his death from the balcony of a Mississauga condo this past summer.

In releasing its decision to terminate the investigation, the SIU said on Thursday the Peel Regional Police officers who responded to the initial call on July 29 in the area of Eglinton Avenue and Hurontario Street “did nothing that could conceivably attract criminal liability in connection with the unfortunate death of the man.”

The SIU is called in whenever there’s a serious injury or death during interactions between members of the public and police officers.

The provincial watchdog agency said Peel police officers were dispatched to the central Mississauga condo building following a July 29 call from a woman who reported her boyfriend had assaulted her.

An INSAUGA Canada story at the time of the incident noted the building is located on Kingsbridge Garden Circle, just north of Highway 403.

In its narrative of events, the SIU said responding police officers received no answer after knocking on the door to the condo unit and identifying themselves. The officers then obtained a key and entered the home, “seeing no one in plain view.”

Continuing, the SIU said the officers “called out the man’s name and announced their presence. After they opened a closed door within the unit, an officer saw the man on the balcony.”

The man, 34, had placed a chair near the balcony railing “and was seen climbing onto it. As the officer crossed the room towards the sliding glass door, he called out to the man to stop him,” the agency said in recounting the events.

“As the officer opened the sliding glass door to the balcony, the man stepped onto the railing and jumped from the balcony.”

In rendering the agency’s decision to end the probe, SIU Deputy Director Stacey O’Brien said that “due to the rapid progression of events, there was no reasonable opportunity to intervene or prevent the outcome. On this record, it was evident that the police officers did nothing that could conceivably attract criminal liability in connection with the unfortunate death of the man.”


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