The leader of the Nova Scotia RCMP’s tactical team left the force in frustration six months after responding to the mass shooting that started in Portapique, N.S.
Cpl. Tim Mills, far left, had 20 years experience on Nova Scotia's RCMP Emergency Response Team when he led the tactical unit responding to the April 2020 mass shooting. Days later, they stood at attention as the body of their colleague Const. Heidi Stevenson, who was among the 22 victims, passed by.
The work usually involved racing to crime scenes in the middle of the night. Though they trained to deal with active shooters like the one in 2014 who killed three Mounties and injured two more in Moncton, N.B., Mills said they were more often dealing with armed people who needed to be contained and talked down.
Because of that, Mills said he decided to stay with the group as an extra body on the ground instead of doing tactical operations and working alongside the critical incident commander overseeing the response from the command post, as team leaders normally would. In the past, Mills said they had access to software that could be opened on their phones or in a command centre and would map out icons showing where members and their vehicles were positioned. They could insert an address so people could see where it was in relation to their position.
"Bingo, hundred per cent. We preached that and it fell on deaf ears," Mills replied. "It caused delays in locating addresses and … getting the lay of the land for sure."
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