{"id":926982,"date":"2026-10-09T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926982\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:26:09","slug":"siu-seeks-new-director-as-current-leaders-term-set-to-expire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926982\/","title":{"rendered":"SIU seeks new director as current leader&#8217;s term set to expire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 The province\u2019s police watchdog is looking for a new director as the current head of the Special Investigations Unit is set to step down at the end of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The SIU says Joseph Martino\u2019s term expires on Dec. 31, and a job posting for his replacement closes today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The civilian agency investigates incidents involving police that have resulted in death, serious injury, shots fired at a person or allegations of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The job posting says the director oversees all aspects of SIU investigations and has \u201cthe sole authority\u201d to decide whether charges against police officers are warranted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agency\u2019s latest annual report for 2024-25 says criminal charges were laid by the director in 17 cases against a total of 18 police officers \u2013 fewer than five per cent of all cases investigated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Martino has served as SIU director since 2019. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The province\u2019s police watchdog is looking for a new director as the current head of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,713,11867,3302],"class_list":["post-926982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-justice","tag-ontario-quebec","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}