The death of 36-year-old Nathaniel Schofield at the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment in Rockwood in July 2024 was due to a drug overdose and there is no reason to charge police officers in the case, the director of the province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says.

In a report released Monday morning, SIU director Joseph Martino wrote that "there is no basis for proceeding with criminal charges in this case" as he believed the evidence showed the officers monitored Schofield while …