Supervisors at the RCMP’s operational communications center in Nova Scotia who worked with the 911 dispatcher in April 2020 say half of the staff are now unemployed.
Bryan Green, Acting Commander of operational communication station of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), declared Monday to the commission of inquiry that before the massacre, 50 employees worked full time in this service.
However, Mr. Green said there are now only 24 full-time employees working on sending 911 calls for RCMP of Nova Scotia.
He said most of the absences must be paid in Portapiquewhere the killings began on Saturday night of April 18. Sir. Green believes that while some of those positions are technically filled by people ‘on sick leave’, he doesn’t know if those employees will ever return.
A commission investigator asked Mr. Green if he and his staff were given adequate support after this tragedy that killed 22 people on April 18 and 19, 2020. He replied that he felt he was supported, but perhaps much more could be done to avoid losing of so many employees.
Kirsten Bagleea supervisor at the same communications center, who was on the morning shift on Sunday 19 April, with Mr Green, said the scale of the killing was greater than any staff could have imagined.
He said it has events like this races can be ruined.
The Canadian Press
Source: Radio-Canada
