A senior member with the Ottawa Police Service says the force should have taken intelligence that suggested the Freedom Convoy protesters planned to stay past two days more seriously.
Patricia Ferguson, acting deputy chief of the Ottawa Police Service , made the admission while testifying before the Public Order Emergency Commission on Thursday. The commission is studying whether the federal government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to move the protesters was justified.
Evidence presented at the commission also showed that police and city officials had received a warning from the Ottawa Gatineau Hotel Association that someone from the Canada United Truckers Convoy had reached out looking to book hotel rooms for at least 30 days.
"We weighed the information and the intelligence we had and that was the plan was developed based on what our best assessment of that was," she said. Patricia Ferguson of the Ottawa Police Service arrives to appear as a witness at the Public Order Emergency Commission in Ottawa, on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022."No longer a protest but an occupation now," reads a Jan. 31 note from Ferguson's executive assistant, presented at the commission.Ferguson, who was in charge of community policing at the time of the protests, said the OPS's original contingency plan only extended to noon on Monday, Jan. 31.
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