RCMP Emergency Alert Policy in Place Nearly Two Years After NS Shooting Spree
RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Clarke provides testimony regarding the transmission of a Twitter message related to a replica police cruiser at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Truro, N.S. on June 7, 2022. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan
Two years after it was criticized for not issuing an emergency alert during a 13-hour-long killing spree in Nova Scotia, the RCMP finally has a national Alert Ready policy in place.
The eight-page internal policy came into force on March 1 and was provided to The Canadian Press by the RCMP.
