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Among the spate of press releases issued by Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit since the infamous Danforth shooting last month is one with an unintentionally delicious headline.

“SIU Terminates Marathon Investigation as No Serious Injury Sustained,” says the headline over the July 27 release.

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The “Marathon” reference is because the matter under investigation involved an interaction between a man and officers from the Ontario Provincial Police detachment at Marathon, Ont., a small town about 1,100 kilometres northeast of Toronto.

But it might just as well have referred to the length of the SIU investigation.

The incident in question occurred on Jan. 25, 2017.

The press release announcing the closing of the investigation was issued 18 months later, almost 10 months after the SIU actually learned of the incident.

For some unexplained reason, the unit wasn’t notified of the interaction between the OPP and the unidentified man until nearly nine months after it happened.