New NS Top Mountie Says Public Wants to Keep Force Despite Mass Shooting Response

Assistant Commissioner Dennis Daley, the new commanding officer of the Nova Scotia RCMP, poses at RCMP headquarters in Dartmouth, N.S. on Dec. 14, 2022. The Canadian Press/Darren Calabrese

The RCMP’s new commanding officer in Nova Scotia believes the public wants a renewed relationship with his police force despite its widely criticized response to the 2020 mass shooting.

Assistant Commissioner Dennis Daley said in an interview Wednesday that while it’s possible a public inquiry may call for the province to look at alternative policing models, he is confident Nova Scotians “still want the RCMP as their provincial police.”