HALIFAX –
A senior Nova Scotia RCMP official says he has no regrets that an emergency alert was not sent during a 13-hour run over a killer in 2020, saying that doing so would have resulted in the death of more police officers.
Lia Scanlan told members of the Mass Victims Commission investigating the murder of 22 people in February that she was “glad” that there was no province-wide alert about a gunman driving a police retort.
A transcript of his interview was made public today, during the public hearings on the tragedy of April 18-19, 2020.
Scanlan says in rural places like Portapique, NS, where the murder began, “people take care of themselves,” adding that if the public had known the shooter was dressed as an RCMP officer. , this information would have endangered the members of the RCMP. .
However, Truro, NS police chief Dave MacNeil said Monday in the investigation that the Alert Ready warning, which would have been broadcast on radio, television and smartphones, should have been issued by the RCMP.
Instead, the RCMP used social media to provide updates to neo-Scots on the active shooter, a decision that has been criticized by the families of some of the victims.
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on June 7, 2022.
This story was produced with the financial assistance of Meta and the Canadian Press News Fellowship.