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She also declined to share whether the patrol officer who used the conducted energy weapon on the 46-year-old man on Tuesday is still on active duty, as Greater Sudbury Police “are prohibited from providing further information related to the incident as it is under investigation by the SIU (Special Investigations Unit).”

“To date at least 33 deaths have been proximal to CEW use in Canada, but were not necessarily results of CEW deployment,” a 2013 report by the Council of Canadian Academies & the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences reads.

The weapon was deployed for 11 seconds, but reportedly did not successfully attach to Couvrette’s body to complete the electrical circuit.

“The report compiled by our Training Section provides a thorough and in-depth analysis of the information. This occurs in February or March of each year and will once again be provided at that time.”

In 2022, conducted energy weapons were taken out but not used 62 times, and they were taken out and not used 50 times in 2021.

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A Special Investigations Unit spokesperson told Sudbury.com they didn’t have this data, either, deferring to the Office of the Chief Coroner, who deferred back around to the Special Investigations Unit, but pledged to keep looking into it. Sudbury.com will update this story in the event the Office of the Chief Coroner sends additional context.

A conducted energy weapon was used by police, after which an ambulance was called when the man appeared in medical distress.

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Perhaps best known by the brand name Taser, or its “stun gun” nickname, conducted energy weapons (CEW) are either fired (a pair of metal darts are shot into the person) or used in a drive stun (the device is pressed directly on a person).

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An inquest jury later ruled Couvrette’s death was an accident. During the inquest, the conducted energy weapon was ruled out as a contributing factor in his death.

They record 758 instances in Canada of police-involved deaths wherein force was used since 2000, of which 40 involved a conducted energy weapon as the highest level of force. Ontario led the pack among Canadian provinces and territories at 14 deaths, not including Tuesday’s incident in Chelmsford.

The crowd-sourced website, trackinginjustice.ca, keeps track of police-involved deaths and deaths in custody across Canada, noting, “there is no publicly available, verified, sustained, and comprehensive source for this information.”

The Council of Canadian Academies & the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences’ 2013 report notes that conducted energy weapons deliver short-duration electrical discharges, which are highly effective in stimulating nerves, causing incapacitation and pain, but are much less effective in stimulating the heart muscle, which means they’re less likely to cause fatal disruptions to the heart’s rhythm and pumping ability.

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The 29-use count in 2022 is a jump from the previous year, when Greater Sudbury police used conducted energy weapons 17 times.

When it comes to conducted energy weapons, Dunn said Greater Sudbury Police follow Ontario Use of Force Standards, which intends for them to be used when:

Sudbury.com reached out to the Office of the Independent Police Review Director for the latest statistics regarding deaths related to conducted energy weapons, but they said they do not collect this data.

Although the SIU has indicated that the man in Chelmsford on Jan. 2 suffered cardiac arrest after police used a conducted energy weapon on him, his exact cause of death has not yet been determined. The SIU investigation is ongoing.

“We are required by legislation to publicly provide an annual use of force report through our Police Services Board,” she wrote.

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A Jan. 23, 2021, incident in Sault Ste. Marie was also included in the trackinginjustica.ca list. In this case, police used a conducted energy weapon on a 30-year-old man, who proceeded to pull a knife out of his pocket and slit his own throat, according to the SIU investigation’s findings. The pathologist at autopsy concluded his cause of death was the stab wound to his neck.

These weapons are the same as the one used by police in Chelmsford on Tuesday before a 46-year-old man died in police custody.

“Sudden in-custody death resulting from a use-of-force event typically involves a complicated scenario that includes multiple factors, all of which can potentially contribute to a sudden unexpected death,” according to the report.

“This makes it difficult to isolate the contribution of any single factor. Although the electrical characteristics of CEWs can potentially contribute to sudden in-custody death, given the limited evidence, CEW exposure cannot be confirmed or excluded as the primary cause of a fatality in most real-world settings.”