Ontario’s police watchdog has invoked its mandate as the result of an incident following an arrest in Pembroke on Tuesday.
Just before 6 p.m., officers from the Upper Ottawa Valley detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police responded to a reported disturbance at a home on Pembroke Street West.
A 44-year-old man wanted on an outstanding warrant was arrested there without incident, the OPP said in a news release Wednesday.
According to police, two loaded weapons and a quantity of suspected cocaine were seized.
While in the back seat of a cruiser, the man went into “medical distress” and was taken to hospital for treatment, the OPP said.
The Special Investigations Unit was informed about the incident and invoked its mandate on Wednesday. The OPP said it could provide no further information because of the SIU investigation, and as of Wednesday evening the SIU had not issued a release.
The SIU is a civilian oversight agency that investigates incidents involving police in which there has been death, serious injury, the discharge of a firearm at a person or an allegation of sexual assault.
