The SIU is reopening a deadly drowning investigation in Brantford.
The Director of the Special Investigations Unit says new information has come to light in the death of 32-year-old Benjamin Wood.
According to the initial report, in the early morning hours of January 20, 2009, a Brantford Police Officer followed set of shoe prints from a stolen car. The footprints led to the bank of the Grand River.
There the officer found wood and there was a struggle between the two. Wood then ventured out onto the ice surface as officers urged him to come back to the bank.Wood fell through the ice. The OPP's Recovery Unit was called in and his body was recovered around noon the same day.
It was determined he died of drowning and hypothermia.
The SIU initially determined there was no criminal offence committed by a police officer during the incident.
This is the second SIU probe in Brantford that has been reopened in the last month.
