The widow of a slain RCMP officer is calling for changes in the way the force patrols remote communities in the North, saying her husband would still be alive if a mandatory backup policy had been in place.
Jodie Worden is the widow of Const. Christopher Worden.
(CBC) "The RCMP as an organization is not doing enough to keep the members safe," said Jodie Worden, whose husband, Const. Christopher Worden, 30, was gunned down in Hay River, N.W.T., last month.
"They have no idea the demands and the expectations that are put on regular members up in the North," she told CBC News Thursday.
Worden's comments follow the death of Const. Douglas Scott, 20, who was shot and killed earlier this week while responding to a drunk-driving complaint in Kimmirut, Nunavut.
In both cases, the officers answered the service calls alone, late at night.
Worden says she believes her husband's death — and possibly Scott's as well — could have been prevented if there had been backup.
"They need to send two members to every call," Worden said. "That's just an officer safety issue. [The policy] needs to be changed and it needs to happen now."
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"They have no idea the demands and the expectations that are put on regular members up in the North," she told CBC News Thursday.
Worden's comments follow the death of Const. Douglas Scott, 20, who was shot and killed earlier this week while responding to a drunk-driving complaint in Kimmirut, Nunavut.
In both cases, the officers answered the service calls alone, late at night.
Worden says she believes her husband's death — and possibly Scott's as well — could have been prevented if there had been backup.
"They need to send two members to every call," Worden said. "That's just an officer safety issue. [The policy] needs to be changed and it needs to happen now."
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