N.S. county where mass shooting occurred to seek proposals for policing alternatives
A public inquiry has heard the Mounties didn’t have protocols in place at the time to issue public emergency alerts, officers couldn’t be tracked when outside of their vehicles, and two out of six of the first responders weren’t available on the first night of the killings.
Assistant Commissioner Dennis Daley, the new commander of the RCMP in Nova Scotia, recently told The Canadian Press he believes the public still want to keep the RCMP as their provincial police force, and improvements are being made in equipping and training officers.But he said it’s a challenge to ensure full staff complements, as it’s become difficult to recruit new officers in a tight labour market.
“Like everybody else, we have absences … but we have the ability to pull people from different areas when required,” he said. Nova Scotia’s contract with the RCMP runs until 2032, and there are regular reviews that are built into an agreement that sees municipalities pay for 70 per cent of RCMP services while the federal government covers 30 per cent.
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