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The former chief of the Ottawa police says his officers couldn’t have done anything materially differently during the response to the “Freedom Convoy.”
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation provided support to Ottawa police as it struggled to deal with the truck convoy protest that paralyzed the nation's capital last winter, according to confidential minutes of the Ottawa Police Services Board tabled by the inquiry investigating the protest.
Concerned that a plan to end last winter's convoy protest in Ottawa was stagnating, the commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was about to ask Ottawa's police chief if he wanted to hand over command and control of the operation — but the conversation never took place because Peter Sloly resigned.
A suspended Ottawa police superintendent who was at the centre of cancelled convoy raids, oversaw early lapses in local intelligence, and levied an allegation of collusion against his deputy chief is not scheduled to testify at the public inquiry into the occupation.
Brenda Lucki not only lost confidence in the leadership of former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly over the ...