Halliday told inquiry interviewers in November 2021 he was worried about how such a message would be worded, 'in order not, you know, (to) put ourselves at our people in any more risk.'Īccording to the interview transcript, Halliday told Scanlan he wanted to avoid sending 'the public into a frantic panic and overload our OCC (Operational Communications Centre) operators.' These operators based out of Truro, N.S., handled 911 calls. phone call with communications director Lia Scanlan on April 19, he expressed concerns about publicly releasing the photograph they had just received of the killer's replica RCMP car. Steve Halliday told the inquiry's investigators that during an 8 a.m. The details are from an interview with an RCMP operations officer who responded to the shootings on April 18 and 19, conducted by the public inquiry investigating the mass shooting. Nova Scotia RCMP were initially reluctant to release a photo of the replica police cruiser being driven by a gunman who killed 22 people in April 2020 out of fear it could spark a 'frantic panic.'
