Photos of an Anti-Riot Weapon Enfield, known as an ARWEN, courtesy of the Special Investigations Unit.
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Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit are investigating an incident involving officers with the Kenora OPP, after a youth was struck with an anti-riot weapon and taken to the hospital.
The SIU says last night at 7:15 p.m., officers with the Kenora OPP received a call about a robbery at a downtown Kenora restaurant and attended the scene. A short time later, officers located a 15-year-old person of interest in an alleyway between 5th Avenue South and 6th Avenue South.
After an interaction, one officer discharged an Anti-Riot Weapon Enfield, known as an ARWEN, a firearm that discharges plastic projectiles. The youth was struck with the projectile and was transported to the Lake of the Woods District Hospital for assessment.
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Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is looking into the use of an anti-riot weapon by police officers during a call in Whitby.
Durham Regional Police were called Saturday night around 6.40 p.m. to Dundas St. for reports of a person in crisis and located a woman near the Whitby Public Library.
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After an interaction with the police, an officer fired a plastic bullet at her from his ARWEN gun.
The woman was not seriously injured but was taken to hospital for an assessment.
TORONTO The province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing the circumstances that led to a police officer firing a less-lethal plastic projectile at a woman outside a library in Whitby on Saturday night. Durham Regional Police say that at 6:40 p.m. Saturday, they were called to Dundas Street, between Euclid and Kent streets, for reports of a person in crisis in the area. The SIU says officers found the woman near a Whitby Public Library branch. There was some sort of interaction between the woman and officers and one officer carrying an Anti-Riot Weapon Enfield (ARWEN) fired a plastic projectile her.