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The civilian police watchdog has charged an Ottawa police K9 officer with dangerous driving causing bodily harm after a man was injured following a car chase in February, prompting the police union boss to call the SIU “irresponsible and unaccountable.”
The Special Investigations Unit announced Wednesday that Const. Randy Stockdale is charged with dangerous driving causing bodily harm after a passenger in a suspect vehicle in a police pursuit was injured Feb. 19.
Stockdale was engaged in the noon-hour pursuit that ended when the suspect vehicle struck an OC Transpo bus on the Transitway near the University of Ottawa. The collision itself didn’t involve the police vehicle.
The SIU says that the pursuit began when Stockdale stopped a white sedan on Belfast Road. Once Stockdale exited his police vehicle, the other car sped off.
Witnesses saw the suspect vehicle speed past them with the police car in pursuit prior to the collision at the intersection of Nicholas Street and Laurier Avenue East. The white Mercury Grand Marquis struck the driver’s side of the No. 97 bus.
The charge against Stockdale relates to a passenger in the vehicle, identified by the SIU Wednesday as Christian St. Louis, 39, who was taken to hospital in serious condition with a fractured hip and shoulder.
At the time, a witness told the Citizen the driver was limping when he was handcuffed by police but didn’t appear to be seriously hurt. Paramedics confirmed that the 50-year-old driver was treated for neck and back injuries and was in hospital in stable condition later that day.
Two people on the bus at the time of the collision were also injured — the 48-year-old driver and a pregnant 32-year-old woman.
The SIU began investigating the collision without hours and assigned four investigators, two forensic investigators and a collision reconstructionist to the case.
Stockdale is scheduled to appear in court July 21.
The charges angered charged Ottawa Police Association president Matt Skof.
“This is another serious morale injury to our officers; for being professional, diligent and protecting the community,” Skof said.
“In the past five years, six Ottawa officers have been negatively impacted by the irresponsible and unaccountable actions of two SIU directors.”
None of the charges laid against Ottawa police officers by former SIU director Ian Scott resulted in convictions and the first set of charges laid by current director Tony Loparco were withdrawn by the Crown in April since there was no reasonable prospect of conviction in the case.
Skof sees charged officers stuck between the SIU and their own police board. The board has not yet paid the legal costs of constables Jordan Blonde and Erin Cavan, for whom job-related charges of assault were withdrawn.
“This has been only half the battle for Ottawa police officers; our own police services board is equally causing a paralysis in our membership by continuing to deny legal indemnification,” Skof said.
“Our mandate, to serve the public, is only further eroded when those with personal and political agendas continue in positions, unchecked.”
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The Special Investigations Unit announced Wednesday that Const. Randy Stockdale is charged with dangerous driving causing bodily harm after a passenger in a suspect vehicle in a police pursuit was injured Feb. 19.
Stockdale was engaged in the noon-hour pursuit that ended when the suspect vehicle struck an OC Transpo bus on the Transitway near the University of Ottawa. The collision itself didn’t involve the police vehicle.
The SIU says that the pursuit began when Stockdale stopped a white sedan on Belfast Road. Once Stockdale exited his police vehicle, the other car sped off.
Witnesses saw the suspect vehicle speed past them with the police car in pursuit prior to the collision at the intersection of Nicholas Street and Laurier Avenue East. The white Mercury Grand Marquis struck the driver’s side of the No. 97 bus.
The charge against Stockdale relates to a passenger in the vehicle, identified by the SIU Wednesday as Christian St. Louis, 39, who was taken to hospital in serious condition with a fractured hip and shoulder.
At the time, a witness told the Citizen the driver was limping when he was handcuffed by police but didn’t appear to be seriously hurt. Paramedics confirmed that the 50-year-old driver was treated for neck and back injuries and was in hospital in stable condition later that day.
Two people on the bus at the time of the collision were also injured — the 48-year-old driver and a pregnant 32-year-old woman.
The SIU began investigating the collision without hours and assigned four investigators, two forensic investigators and a collision reconstructionist to the case.
Stockdale is scheduled to appear in court July 21.
The charges angered charged Ottawa Police Association president Matt Skof.
“This is another serious morale injury to our officers; for being professional, diligent and protecting the community,” Skof said.
“In the past five years, six Ottawa officers have been negatively impacted by the irresponsible and unaccountable actions of two SIU directors.”
None of the charges laid against Ottawa police officers by former SIU director Ian Scott resulted in convictions and the first set of charges laid by current director Tony Loparco were withdrawn by the Crown in April since there was no reasonable prospect of conviction in the case.
Skof sees charged officers stuck between the SIU and their own police board. The board has not yet paid the legal costs of constables Jordan Blonde and Erin Cavan, for whom job-related charges of assault were withdrawn.
“This has been only half the battle for Ottawa police officers; our own police services board is equally causing a paralysis in our membership by continuing to deny legal indemnification,” Skof said.
“Our mandate, to serve the public, is only further eroded when those with personal and political agendas continue in positions, unchecked.”
syogaretnam@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/shaaminiwhy
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