MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating an incident in which they say an 80-year-old woman suffered a fractured hip after she was struck by police with a Taser.
Special Investigations Unit spokeswoman Monica Hudon says three Peel region police officers approached the woman (near Thomas Street and Erin Mills Parkway in Mississauga) around 3:30 a.m. last Wednesday after calls about a female walking along the road.
Hudon says officers spoke with the woman until “at some point” in the incident an officer fired his Taser.
Hudon says the elderly women fell to the ground and was rushed to Credit Valley Hospital for treatment of a fractured hip, among other injuries.
The SIU is an arm’s length agency that investigates reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.
The incident occurred one day after the province announced it would permit all frontline police officers to carry stun guns.
