A senior member with the Ottawa Police Service says the force should have taken the intelligence that suggested the Freedom Convoy protesters planned to stay past two days more seriously.
Inquiry into use of Emergencies Act underway in OttawaThe history-making Public Order Emergency Commission, which is reviewing the federal government's use of emergency powers last winter, is hearing testimony in Ottawa. The inquiry is expected to last six weeks.
The commission is studying whether the federal government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to move the protesters was justified. Evidence presented at the commission also showed that police and city officials had received a warning from the Ottawa Gatineau Hotel Association that someone from the Canada United Truckers Convoy had reached out looking to book hotel rooms for at least 30 days.
"We weighed the information and the intelligence we had and that was the plan was developed based on what our best assessment of that was," she said.Commission lawyer Frank Au asked Ferguson what she would have done differently leading up to the first weekend "in hindsight." Under cross examination, Chris Diana, a lawyer for the OPP, asked Ferguson about reports dubbed "Project Hendon" that had been passed on to Ottawa police and then-OPS chief Peter Sloly.
Ferguson, who was in charge of community policing at the time of the protests, said the OPS's original contingency plan only extended to noon on Monday, Jan. 31."We had been talking about demobilization plan up until that point, and clearly that was not the plan that was going to be required," Ferguson said Thursday.
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