The media is focusing on the weapon transport and loss of weapon, but not on the illegal search and seizure the police setup after the fact. There was a perimeter setup and vehicles were being searched without legal concern.
As per the reddit poster:
Section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides everyone in Canada with protection against unreasonable search and seizure. This right provides Canadians with their primary source of constitutionally enforced privacy rights against unreasonable intrusion from the state. Typically, this protects personal information that can be obtained through searching someone in pat-down, entering someone's property or surveillance.
Under the heading of legal rights, section 8 states:
Any property found or seized by means of a violation of section 8 can be excluded as evidence in a trial under section 24(2).
So here you have the office on duty, the sergeant on duty and this must have gone up the channels showing a police service that clearly doesn't understand the above. In the interest of violating charter law to recover their gun.
The media isn't talking about this at all.
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