A review exploring the Mounties' response to Justin Bourque's shooting spree in June in New Brunswick makes 64 recommendations, with many focusing on the way police respond to emergency situations, and all of them have been accepted by the RCMP.
The review was released in Moncton on Friday morning.
Retired assistant commissioner Alphonse MacNeil led the review and has grouped the recommendations under five themes:
- Supervision.
- Training.
- Technology.
- Equipment.
- Communications and aftercare.
MacNeil says in the report that he encountered "unforeseen challenges" completing the review.
"The time allotted did limit the depths to which some issues could be explored," he said.
Three members of the Codiac RCMP detachment were killed and two others wounded on June 4. They were gunned down by the 24-year-old Bourque with a high-powered firearm as he roamed a Moncton neighbourhood.
After the shootings, questions quickly surfaced about whether the RCMP were adequately armed to deal with someone as heavily armed as Bourque, who used an M305 .308 semiautomatic rifle and a Mossberg 500 12-gauge shotgun.
The recommendations include:
- RCMP take immediate action to expedite deployment of patrol carbines across the force, including improved training.
- The officers have a cellphone and police radio while on duty.
- Annual night training be completed, including for air services.
- Infrared strobes be attached to tactical armoured vehicles.
- Where a general duty member is qualified in use of a long-barrelled weapon and where one is available, the member must have the weapon in the police vehicle while on duty.
- Firearms must be stored with sufficient ammunition.
- That a radio and data system be developed to allow RCMP members from all maritime divisions to communicate.
- That RCMP create policy to allow for use of plain language instead of 10-codes in urgent situations.
- Software be sought to properly monitor social media.
- That communications people have functional, portable devices to enable them to use social media.
- That RCMP consider broadening its support for initiatives to help young people with mental illness.
Robert Creasser, a retired RCMP officer who leads a group representing about 2,000 of the estimated 18,000 Mounties across Canada, said the 9-mm handguns available to the officers to deal with Bourque were "not an adequate response."
"Who knows whether it would have made a difference if they had responded and they had the high-calibre weaponry in their vehicle, or they had their ballistic vests," said Creasser in June.
Creasser said ceramic-plated ballistic vests had to be flown into Moncton from Ottawa on the night of the shootings.
When the review by retired assistant RCMP commissioner Phonse MacNeil was ordered in July, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson was critical of "careless analysis" being carried out.
"These early discussions concerning deployment of hard body armour and carbines are a very superficial, easy and incomplete effort to look for explanations and orient blame for what has happened," stated Paulson when he announced the internal review.
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson ordered an internal review into the shooting deaths of three officers and the wounding of two others in Moncton, N.B., last June. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
Paulson indicated J Division in New Brunswick was in the early stage of deploying C-8 carbine weapons for use by Mounties. Codiac had four members trained to use the weapons, but the detachment's six patrol carbines were deployed in training on June 4 and were not available.
Each RCMP car responding to the shooting had hard body armour in it at the time, stated Paulson in July.
Killed by Bourque were constables Douglas James Larche, 40, Dave Joseph Ross, 32, and Fabrice Georges Gevaudan, 45.
Constables Éric Stéphane J. Dubois and Marie Darlene Goguen were wounded.
Paulson said at the time Canadians need to "prevent our communities from producing more offenders like this."
Bourque, now 25, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. He was sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility of parole for 75 years, which is the longest period of parole ineligibility in Canadian history.
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