MacMillan cited a number of concerns about how RCMP H division in Dartmouth responded to Canada’s largest mass shooting, from failing to pass on 911 info to front-line officers to talking on open radio channels that Wortman could have picked up with a phone app or electronics store scanner.
The breaches of the Canada Labour Code show that police were poorly led because supervisors weren’t trained and they were kept in the dark, literally, because they didn’t have night vision goggles. Since then, some have bought them on their own.
The RCMP has been ordered to investigate why critical information received from 911 callers was not being broadcast over the radio by dispatchers. The communication breakdown meant that officers on the ground were hampered trying to track down the killer and also to identify one another. “General Duty members reverted to primitive means to self-identify, including flashing lights while driving,” stated the investigator.
Radio communications being broadcast over unencrypted channels meant that on the morning of April 19, 2020, officers were put in danger. Anyone with a scanner, including possibly the gunman, “could hear, track and counter police actions during the unfolding critical event.”
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