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Chair-initiated complaint and public interest investigation into the RCMP's response to the 2013 flood in High River, Alberta

11 Feb 2015

The extent of the flood review the actions and decisions of and the damage it caused were RCMP members and focused on unprecedented. [...] The results flooding, the EOC ordered the of these searches were the discovery mandatory evacuation of the entire of approximately 38 people in need town of High River. [...] Ross Shapka, confirmed The rapidity of the flood caught that the aim of the first round of the many by surprise. [...] In the afternoon of the second day of the flood, as the preparation of However, even though the RCMP the search plan was in the final members were directed to enter stages, some RCMP members sought every residence, in the clarification on the measures to be neighbourhoods located in the “high used for their “door-to-door” efforts if and dry” areas—approximately five nobody answered the door, perce [...] In the case of High River, the RCMP, the town and the province were all forces of the Crown.
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Pages
122
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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