Confusion, radio traffic jams hampered RCMP's response to Nova Scotia mass shooting

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Confusion over leadership, radio traffic jams marred RCMP's early response to Nova Scotia mass shooting, inquiry hears

The public inquiry investigating the tragedy has also heard, in testimony on Monday, about the “chaos in communications” that ensued on April 18-19, 2020, when 22 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history.

Within the next 30 minutes, as reports came in about more fatal shootings, Rehill engaged the RCMP's critical incident command structure and he reached out for help from four other staff sergeants: Steve Halliday, Addie MacCallum, Al Carroll and Jeff West. As well, there was another RCMP officer providing direction that night: Sgt. Andy O'Brien, the Bible Hill detachment's operations non-commissioned officer. Though he was off duty and had consumed four alcoholic drinks, O'Brien later retrieved his portable radio from the detachment - with the help of his wife - and joined in offering direction to investigating officers.

Testifying before the inquiry on Tuesday, Halliday said he didn't see confusion in leadership during the early response. “Frankly at that point I was glad to have O'Brien supporting Rehill .... Everybody had a role, everybody had a function and knew what that role was. In my view there was no mistake in that. In my view they were carrying their functions out well and doing what needed to be done to address the issue,” he said.

 

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