STIRLING-RAWDON, Ont. -- An eastern Ontario police officer is recovering after accidentally shooting himself.
Stirling-Rawdon Township Police Chief Dario Cecchin says the officer had been participating in a pistol requalification session at a firearms range Tuesday.
Cecchin says the officer was disassembling the weapon to clean it after returning to the police station in the community northwest of Belleville when the pistol discharged one round into his hand.
The bullet also went through an exterior wall.
The officer was taken to hospital for treatment of what Cecchin describes as a non-critical injury.
No one else was injured, and the Belleville Police Service is investigating the incident on behalf of Stirling-Rawdon Police.
(CJOJ)
