Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry heavily criticises police response
Source: BBC
Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry heavily criticises police response
30 March 2023
By Nadine Yousif
BBC News, Toronto
Police missed multiple "red flags" and failed to respond quickly to the worst mass shooting in Canada's history, a report into the response has found.
A gunman posing as a police officer killed 22 people in Nova Scotia over a two-day period in April 2020.
An inquiry into the shooting heavily criticised the police response, and said that lives could have been saved.
It concluded that Canada's federal police force needs a significant overhaul in the aftermath.
"Our recommendations call for transformative change, they call for collaboration, they call for leadership," said Michael MacDonald, chair of the Mass Casualty Commission charged with overseeing the independent inquiry into the shooting.
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