Audit After NS Mass Shooting Reveals Flaws in RCMP Decommissioning of Vehicles

Commission counsel Roger Burrill presents information about the police paraphernalia used by Gabriel Wortman, at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Halifax on April 25, 2022. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

An internal audit of how the RCMP decommissions its vehicles has uncovered a series of shortcomings.

The report was written in response to two cases in Nova Scotia of people using former RCMP vehicles to impersonate police officers, including the April 2020 mass shooting that killed 22 people.