13-16 Special Investigations Unit - Definitions Flashcards
Incident Notes means:
only in relation to an incident where the Special Investigations Unit mandate is or may be invoked, notes made in the members Service-issued memorandum book or case book about the incident giving rise to the SIU
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mandate being invoked. Incident notes do not include other types of notes such as occurrence reports, arrest reports, use of force reports, duty reports, logs or canine training records. All incident notes shall be completed by the end of tour of duty, unless otherwise authorized by the Chief’s Special Investigations Unit On-Call Designated Authority.
Peer Support Volunteer (PSV) means:
a Service member trained in trauma response measures and available on-call to provide ongoing assistance and support to members and their families after becoming involved in a traumatic critical incident. PSVs are qualified to lead defusing sessions. PSVs are not counsellors. The PSVs will assist members to seek professional treatment, if required.
Police Officer – SIU Investigations in reference to Special Investigations Unit (SIU) investigations means:
a police officer engaged in the execution or purported execution of duty. Off–duty events may be subject to an SIU investigation. For example, but not limited to, the following events:
where a police officer verbally identifies themselves as a police officer;
where a police officer produces police identification; where a police officer engages in an investigation;
where a police officer uses police equipment or property;
where a police officer operates a Service vehicle; or
where a police officer otherwise engages their oath of office.
The decision to contact the SIU in such circumstances will be at the discretion o the Chief’s SIU On-Call Designated Authority or, in their absence, the Duty Senior Officer – Toronto Police Operations Centre.
Civilian members including Court Officers, Parking Enforcement Officers and Special Constables are not included in the definition of a police officer for the purposes of the SIU.
Professional Standards Support Special Investigations (SIU) Liaison Investigator means:
the investigator assigned to the Professional Standards Support - SIU Liaison Section that support the Chief’s SIU On-Call Designated Authority and oversees all investigations required under Section 11 of Ontario Regulation 267/10. (When the Community Safety and Policing Act
Serious Injury in reference to Special Investigations Unit investigations:
a person sustains serious injury if they: sustain an injury as a result of which they are admitted to a hospital;
suffer a fracture to the skull, limb, rib, or vertebra;
suffer burns to a significant proportion of their body
lose any portion of their body;
as a result of an injury, experience a loss of vision or hearing; or
sustains a prescribed injury.
Special Investigations Unit (SIU) Mandate means:
that the SIU Director may cause an investigation to be conducted into any incident in which any of the following occurs, if the incident may have resulted from the criminal conduct of a Service official:
the death of a person the serious injury of a person
the discharge of a firearm at a person
the sexual assault of a person, as reported by the person.
The SIU Director may cause an investigation to be conducted if, at the time of the incident:
the official was on duty; or the official was off-duty but - engaged in the investigation, pursuit, detention or arrest of a person or otherwise exercised the powers of a police officer, special constable, peace officer or other prescribed person, as the case may be, whether or not the official intended to exercise such powers or identified him or herself as a person who may exercise such powers, or - the incident involved equipment or other property issued to the official in relation to his or her duties.
Subject Official – SIU Investigations means:
in respect of an incident referred to in SIUA ss. 15 (1), an official whose conduct appears, in the opinion of the SIU Director, to have been a cause of the incident. The Subject Official must be provided with a notice of their designation in writing.
Witness Official – SIU Investigations means:
in respect of an incident referred to in SIUA ss. 15 (1), an official whose conduct appears, in the opinion of the SIU Director, to have been a cause of the incident. The Subject Official must be provided with a notice of their designation in writing.
