Notes taken by Mounties in the years leading up to the Nova Scotia mass shooting were “incomplete, illegible, missing” and deficient overall — a problem the authors of a recently released report on the 2020 tragedy say needs to be addressed.
In fact, the Mass Casualty Commission’s final report says the justice system should “exercise caution in drawing inferences from an absence of RCMP members’ notes or omissions in notes taken.”
“Courts, tribunals and the public need to be aware that simply because something is not reflected in a police officer’s notes does not mean it did not happen,” says the report.
Note-taking is
