Ottawa’s interim police chief spars with OPP lawyer at emergency commission over intelligence reports

Steve Bell tells the Public Order Emergency Commission that early intelligence reports about the 'Freedom Convoy' offered no indication that it would use the suffering of the local community as ‘leverage’ for its aims.

Ottawa Police Service Interim Chief Steve Bell appears as a witness before the Public Order Emergency Commission at Library and Archives Canada on Oct. 24.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

October 24, 2022

The Ottawa Police Service spent another day in the crosshairs of the Public Order Emergency Commission for how it planned, or failed to plan, for the arrival of the "Freedom Convoy" in downtown Ottawa in January 2022. Steve Bell, ...

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