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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Has a policing agency dealt with this kind of scenario before?
Has it been game planned and practiced?
I suppose it should have been, but real events often differ from the mock up, especially if it is novel.
The steps and resources of smaller detachments might vary as well. What if the officer in charge of communicating with the Emergency Response System was on the front line? I don't know.
Its early to lay blame (even if your gut ends up being correct).
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Originally Posted by wwkayaker
I’m sure they have planned for similar events but probably not to this scale in incidents nor the ground area. Several years ago, I spoke with an RCMP officer about school shootings and readiness. We were in a small town of 4500 people with 6 rcmp members. He said the rcmp has a plan but it was wishful thinking that it would work. He said they didn’t have enough officers to cover all of the high school entrances let alone buddy up and go into a situation safely.
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Yup. This sort of thing is why when there was the Active Shooter scare in CrossIron Mills, the RCMP immediately called CPS for assistance. CPS had recently completed its multi-agency/large-building response training program and were close enough to get there quickly enough in enough numbers to actually help.
But yes, you can't even train for a "large scale response event" when your entire detachment is 8 officers. Usually, at best...1-4 have been able to travel somewhere where they get to participate in those training programs. But that opportunity doesn't come around very often, either.