A Kenora OPP officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the June shooting of a woman in that city, but the Special Investigation's Unit is questioning why it took Provincial Police almost two hours to report the incident.
39-year-old Helen Proulx was shot twice in the torso after brandishing a knife at a female officer.
S.I.U. director Ian Scott found no reasonable grounds to believe the officer acted inappropriately.
Witnesses told the S.I.U. Proulx was intoxicated and in a despondent emotional state at the time and failed to comply with the officer's repeated requests to drop the knife
But in his report, Scott expressed concernd with the delay in reporting the shooting to the S.I.U., a contravention under the Police Services Act, and that some officers at the scene were told by an association lawyer not to make notes.
He's asked the OPP Commissioner to investigate.
