An RCMP spokesperson said that supply issues such as “raw material shortages and manufacturing issues” caused by COVID\u002D19 and the war in Ukraine are to blame for their inability to secure replacement body armour
In other words, agents are patrolling with HBA, which is generally stored in patrol vehicles and pulled out in high-risk situations such as with active shooters, that has expired.
In a recent statement, RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Kim Chamberland said that supply issues such as “raw material shortages and manufacturing issues” caused by COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine are to blame for the RCMP’s inability to secure replacement body armour before a certain number of units expired.Article content
Five years later, the auditor general found that the national police force still “did not track its distribution of hard body armour in any national database” and “had not provided all of its officers with access to hard body armour … to respond to an active shooter.” Chamberland’s statement did not respond to questions about how many expired HBA units still in circulation.
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