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The creepy Toronto Police Services, OPP, Peel Region Police and DRPS need to be reformed or replaced. I don't know by whom because the RCMP are no allies of civil liberties either but it appears the territorial rift across Canada continues.
Our allies better be paying attention and good citizens step up in policing or you will drive your nation into the abyss the same way Ontario have been driven.
The mass shooting in April 2020 that scarred Nova Scotians has also strained the fraught relationship between the RCMP and municipal forces in the province, with leaders bringing their feud into the inquiry examining the massacre.
The inquiry has heard that tensions have escalated over the past two years due to disagreements over the mass shooting response, policing standards, tracking special services, funding and the emergency alert system.
Although senior officers on both sides have said the deterioration in the relationship has been at the senior management level, with minimal impact on front-line officers, a member of the Mass Casualty Commission leading the inquiry disagrees.
"The reality is it makes a huge difference to the people on the front line because, without the support of their senior leadership, you're not going to have people stepping up," Commissioner Leanne Fitch said Thursday when questioning Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella.
"They're going to want to be out there working together. But if there's barriers because there is lack of co-operation and communication in the relationships at the senior management level, we're not gonna get past that, and that's a disservice to public safety."
Our allies better be paying attention and good citizens step up in policing or you will drive your nation into the abyss the same way Ontario have been driven.
The mass shooting in April 2020 that scarred Nova Scotians has also strained the fraught relationship between the RCMP and municipal forces in the province, with leaders bringing their feud into the inquiry examining the massacre.
The inquiry has heard that tensions have escalated over the past two years due to disagreements over the mass shooting response, policing standards, tracking special services, funding and the emergency alert system.
Although senior officers on both sides have said the deterioration in the relationship has been at the senior management level, with minimal impact on front-line officers, a member of the Mass Casualty Commission leading the inquiry disagrees.
"The reality is it makes a huge difference to the people on the front line because, without the support of their senior leadership, you're not going to have people stepping up," Commissioner Leanne Fitch said Thursday when questioning Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella.
"They're going to want to be out there working together. But if there's barriers because there is lack of co-operation and communication in the relationships at the senior management level, we're not gonna get past that, and that's a disservice to public safety."
