RCMP Incident Commander Says Radio Service a Challenge During NS Mass Shooting
Jeff West, a retired RCMP staff sergeant who was a critical incident commander, provides testimony dealing with command post, operational communications centre and command decisions at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Dartmouth, N.S., on May 18, 2022. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan
A retired RCMP officer who led much of the response to the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia testified today that spotty radio service posed challenges as Mounties chased a murderous suspect.
Twenty-two people were murdered over 13 hours on April 18-19, 2020, by a gunman driving a replica police car.