Halifax police chief to testify today at Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry
The Halifax Regional Police chief is scheduled to face questions today at the public inquiry into theIt’s expected that Dan Kinsella will be asked about his force’s working relationship with the RCMP and Halifax Regional Police’s role in responding to the two-day rampage that ended on April 19, 2020, and resulted in 22 deaths.
It said that several participants interviewed reported that RCMP members were doing their best to partner with the Halifax police, but “the leadership of was doing everything it could to undermine and break the relationship with the RCMP in order to access more resources from and the province,” reads the report.
On Monday, Lee Bergerman, the retired commanding RCMP officer for the province, was asked at the inquiry if organizational issues between the RCMP and municipal police affected the police response to the mass shooting. She said no. “There were times where there was an opportunity for certain chiefs to publicly say negative things. That was the start of it,” she said.