A police officer stabbed and a suspect shot in the city's west end Friday afternoon are both in stable condition, Toronto police say.

Police said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the incident happened near College Street and Lansdowne Avenue around 1:30 p.m.

Toronto police deputy chief Lauren Pogue said officers went to the scene at 1:00 p.m., looking for a person in crisis. When they arrived, officers attempted to apprehend a man, and one officer was stabbed. An officer then shot their firearm.

Ontario's police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), has invoked its mandate to investigate, as is the case whenever someone is seriously hurt or killed when police officers are involved.

In its own statement, the SIU said officers were called to a home about a man in crisis. The man was found outside a Tim Horton's and police tried to take him in under the Mental Health Act. An officer discharged a conducted energy weapon, or Taser, at the man as a struggle ensued. The man allegedly stabbed an officer and the officer shot the man, it said.

It's unclear if the officer who used the Taser was the same one who shot the man.