We further decided to let the MMC present its final report, give people a month or so to digest the outcome, before we published the MMC recommendations. Now that time has passed, the Shoreline Journal will publish all 130 of the commission’s recommendations in four monthly installments, starting with the June 2023 issue, exactly as published in the Final Report as published and located on the MMC website. This is Part 2 which includes recommendations 30 to 61.

31. Recommendation C.14
ENACTING COMMUNITY SAFETY AND WELL-BEING LAWS
The Commission recommends that:
(a) The federal government should enact legislation within six months to create a statutory framework designed to support and enhance community safety and well-being in every province and territory.
This national framework would be based on guiding principles central to the delivery of public services that include: (i) the centrality of a commitment to equality and inclusion as foundational principles for community safety and well-being; (ii) a prevention-first approach to safety; (iii) an understanding that social determinants of health are also the social determinants of community safety and well-being; (iv) an understanding that police and corrections are layers of this approach to community safety and well-being as decentred and collaborative partners; (v) community-informed municipal / provincial/territorial multi-sectoral processes to ensure more efficient collaboration between different agents of community safety and well-being; (vi) an essential focus on community engagement, including input from and consultation with historically overpoliced communities, in any legislative initiative focused on community safety and
well-being; and (vii) the sharing of personal information between public sectors (including police, education, health, social services, and corrections) when necessary to achieve the success of these community safety and well-being initiatives, while respecting the privacy rights of an individual.
(b) Where they have not already done so, provincial and territorial governments should each enact laws within a year to create a statutory framework for community safety and well-being initiatives. These frameworks should include provision for: (i) the establishment within a year of a Community Safety and Well- Being Leadership Council composed of leaders from all sectors, including non-police sector partners (e.g., leadership from health and community-based organizations, gender-based violence advocacy and support sector, historically marginalized communities). This council would be parallel to the federal counterpart and include liaison or joint members. (ii) municipalities (individually or jointly) to prepare and adopt community safety and well-being plans in partnership with a multi-sectoral advisory committee; (iii) community safety planning to address four areas: social development, prevention, early intervention, and incident response; (iv) engagement, collaboration, and communication between the community, groups, agencies, and service providers; (v) community engagement, beginning with the development of comprehensive community safety needs assessments, followed by information sharing, awareness raising, and involvement in specific actions and strategies under the plan; (vi) the sharing of personal information between public sectors (including police, education, health, social services, and corrections) when necessary to achieve the success of these community safety and well-being initiatives, while respecting the privacy rights of an individual; and (vii) each community, province, and territory, in alignment with the fundamentals of a national framework, to fashion localized frameworks to best meet the unique needs and circumstances of their communities.
(c) Federal, provincial, and territorial governments should ensure these laws are supported by adequate long-term public funding that puts crime prevention on an equal footing with enforcement of the criminal law.

32. Recommendation C.15
COMMUNITY SAFETY AND WELL-BEING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
The Commission recommends that;

To further strengthen federal, provincial, and territorial initiatives that may already be underway, we recommend that the federal legislation include the establishment within a year of a Community Safety and Well-Being Leadership Council composed of leaders from all sectors, including non-police sector partners (such as health and community-based organizations, gender-based violence advocacy and support sector, and historically marginalized communities). This council should not be driven by any one organization but should facilitate shared responsibility for addressing social issues. It should (a) formulate strategies for addressing social issues together; and (b) lead a multi-sectoral approach that centres prevention by collaboratively addressing the social determinants of community safety and well-being.

33. Recommendation C.16
COMMUNITY SAFETY AND WELL-BEING FUNDING ALLOCATION
The Commission recommends that: Federal, provincial, and territorial governments should: (a) adopt funding allocation methods for community safety and well-being initiatives that take into account rural and remote contexts, and (b) shift budgets to focus on prevention activities.

• Community safety and well-being initiatives should be evidence-based and best-practice informed.
• The design of community safety and well-being plans should include provision for longitudinal studies, data sharing among all partners, as well as metrics to assess the impact and outcomes and processes for monitoring and evaluation, and to identify the most promising actions and strategies.
• A national strategy is needed to support research-based community action and to build community capacity.

All governments should adopt the main features of the recommendations for public service reform made
by the Scottish Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services (chaired by Dr. Campbell Christie):
People: Reforms must aim to empower individuals and communities by involving them in the design and delivery of the services.

Partnership: Public service providers must work more closely in partnership, integrating service provision to improve their outcomes.
Prevention: Expenditure must be prioritised on public services which prevent negative
outcomes.
Performance: The public services system – public, non-profit and private sectors – must reduce
duplication and share services to become more efficient.

34. Recommendation C.17
PROMOTING BYSTANDER INTERVENTION AS A DAILY PRACTICE
The Commission recommends that
(a) The federal government should: (i) renew and extend bystander intervention awareness and education campaigns and support their implementation in a wide range of settings, including in education, in workplaces, and in the provision of public services; and (ii) develop and implement a longitudinal evaluation of these campaigns.
(b) Provincial and territorial governments should develop and implement a mandatory gender-based violence and bystander intervention training curriculum in the school system commencing in kindergarten and continuing until Grade 12.
(c) Municipal, provincial, territorial, and Indigenous governments should develop and implement gender-based, intimate partner, and family violence bystander intervention training for their workplaces and staff.
(d) Colleges, universities, and other education and training institutions and workplaces, to the extent they are not already doing so, should provide practical training in support of effective and safe bystander intervention.

36. Recommendation C.19
PROACTIVE MONITORING BY PROFESSIONAL LICENSING BODIES
The Commission recommends that All professional licensing bodies should:
(a) monitor their members proactively to better ensure the safety and well-being of their licensees’
clients / patients;

(b) through careful monitoring, track and proactively demand accountability when discernible patterns of unethical or illegal behaviour are uncovered; and
(c) take steps to promote awareness of complaints mechanisms, including by requiring that licensees prominently display the Code of Ethics and information about the complaints process in their offices / clinics and online.
IMPLEMENTATION POINTS
• Practice audits and quality control systems can assist in proactive monitoring.
• Professional licensing bodies should: acknowledge that marginalized communities face barriers to reporting concerning behaviour; and take steps to minimize these barriers through engagement with these communities.

37. Recommendation C.20
OVERSIGHT OF PUBLICLY FUNDED SERVICES TO POOR AND MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES
The Commission recommends that All levels of government should monitor the provision of public health services by independent service providers to people of lower economic means (and those who are otherwise marginalized) to ensure that quality services are being delivered in compliance with professional standards, including ethical codes. Governments should work in partnership with professional regulatory bodies for this purpose.

39. Recommendation C.22
REVOCATION OF FIREARMS LICENCES FOR CONVICTION OF GENDER-BASED, INTIMATE PARTNER, OR FAMILY VIOLENCE
The Commission recommends that
(a) The federal government should amend the Firearms Act to automatically revoke the firearms licences
of persons convicted of domestic violence or hate-related offences.
(b) The federal government should amend the Firearms Act to suspend the firearms licences of persons charged with such offences; where such charges are diverted, withdrawn, stayed, or otherwise resolved without trial, the suspension should remain in place and the burden of proof should be on licence holders to demonstrate they are not a risk or a threat to others.
(c) The federal government should consult with Indigenous groups, the gender-based violence advocacy and service sector representatives of rural communities, firearms officers, and police services to create guidance for the consistent, effective, and safe enforcement of these provisions.

41. Recommendation C.24
INTEROPERABILITY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ENGAGED IN FIREARMS CONTROL AT THE CANADA–UNITED STATES BORDER
The Commission recommends that
(a) All law enforcement agencies with a shared mandate to stop the illegal entry of firearms into Canada should develop fully interoperable systems for the sharing of records and information.
(b) All law enforcement agencies should develop a collaborative framework to ensure effective scrutiny at the border.
(c) Canadian enforcement agencies should engage local border communities to assist in the prevention of illegal cross-border transfer of firearms, and Canada should encourage American law enforcement agencies to do likewise.

72. Require PAL applicants and holders to report to the CFO in a timely manner any change in information provided in application and renewal forms submitted to the CFO, including when an individual with weapons restrictions comes to reside in their home.
73. Amend PAL application and renewal forms to require identification as a surety.
• Steps should be taken to promote standardization and quality control measures in data collection by police, as well as mandatory collecting of information by federal, provincial, and local police,
• This information should be publicly reporting on an annual basis.
• Information gathered could include: disaggregated data on firearm death, injury and crime including gender, age, region and other pertinent characteristics; types of firearms used (unrestricted, restricted (handguns) and others) and their sources (legal owner, diverted from legal owner, smuggled); offender/ victim relationship (was the perpetrator known or unknown to the victim; if the perpetrator was known, what was his or her relationship to the victim); firearm ownership and whether the person who used the gun was licensed; the number of firearms-related investigations, charges and complaints; a breakdown of the data by gender of suspect / victim; offence type; type of firearm; and demographic indicators such as age, educational level and income; the steps and outcome of steps undertaken by police in response to a firearm related complaint, including the number of firearms removed from individuals following the expiry of a licence; the suspension of a licence; the revocation of a licence; and the issuance of an order in the criminal courts prohibiting an individual from possessing firearms; and the outcome of tracing efforts in each case.

43. Recommendation C.26
PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH TO GUN SAFETY
The Commission recommends that
(a) The federal, provincial, and territorial governments should adopt legislation affirming that gun ownership is a conditional privilege.
(b) The federal government should implement a nation-wide comprehensive public education campaign directed at increasing awareness of existing firearm-related laws and regulations, options for raising complaints and concerns, and the risks associated with firearms in the home, including risk factorsassociated with accidental injury, suicide, domestic violence, hate crimes, and diversion of lawfully owned guns.

(c) The federal government should establish a national firearms hotline in consultation with communities, the gender-based violence advocacy and support sector, firearms regulations officers, and police services.
(d) The federal government should work with the gender-based violence advocacy and support sector and healthcare professional organizations to develop a framework for the establishment of a duty of care to report concerns about potential violence and firearms.
(e) The federal government should implement measures that support compliance with firearm storage laws, including subsidizing storage facilities in communities where this is a barrier to compliance.

(f) Indigenous governments should implement measures to support compliance with firearm storage
laws.

44. Recommendation C.27
RECORDS OF POLICE IMPERSONATION CASES
The Commission recommends that The Canadian criminal intelligence database be amended to provide for the sharing and storing of police impersonation cases and that such cases be tracked in the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System database.

45. Recommendation C.28
MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL OF POLICE UNIFORM AND ASSOCIATED KIT
The Commission recommends that
(a) The RCMP and other police services should review their policies on the management and disposal of police uniform and associated kit to ensure they include proactive and effective measures to manage inventory and disposal including: (i) a process for tracking items issued, returned, and destroyed; and (ii) a process for verifying environmentally sound disposal.
(c) The RCMP and police services should carry out a quality assurance review of their inventory and disposal systems within one year of the publication of this Report and on a triennial basis thereafter.
(d) The RCMP implement the recommendations made in the July 2022 audit of the RCMP’s equipment management processes.
(e) The RCMP and other police services should ensure that when police officers retire or otherwise cease their roles as peace officers, they return all items of police uniform and kit, including ceremonial uniform and badges.

46. Recommendation C.29
REGULATING THE PERSONAL POSSESSION OF POLICE PARAPHERNALIA
The Commission recommends that
(a) The Province of Nova Scotia amend the Police Identity Management Act to remove the exception for personal possession of ceremonial uniforms.
(b) Other Canadian provinces and territories enact legislation equivalent to the Nova Scotia Police
Identity Management Act.

47. Recommendation C.30
SALE OF DECOMMISSIONED VEHICLES
The Commission recommends that
(a) The minister for public safety retain a moratorium on the sale of decommissioned RCMP vehicles to the public until a third-party review of the decommissioning process has been completed, any recommendations arising from this review have been implemented, and alternative avenues for disposal (such as transfer to other government agencies or other levels of government) have been pursued.

(b) That if sales to the public are resumed, the RCMP should publicly report on an annual basis th
number of vehicles sold and the net revenue raised by such sales.

48. Recommendation C.31
GCSURPLUS TRACKING, TRAINING, AND OVERSIGHT
The Commission recommends that
(a) GCSurplus and any company that performs a similar function of disposing of policing assets develop and implement a policy to identify, track, and report suspicious activity by buyers and potential buyers.
(b) GCSurplus and any company that performs a similar function of disposing of policing assets train its warehouse employees to identify suspicious behaviours and follow this policy and provide management oversight of this role.

49. Recommendation C.32
PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING HEALTHY MASCULINITIES
The Commission recommends that
(a) The federal government should develop and implement a national public health education and awareness campaign to promote healthy masculinities.
(b) As part of the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, the federal government should support research, evaluation and knowledge exchange about promising practices to support healthy masculinities through primary prevention, strategies to intervene in and respond to the perpetration of gender-based violence, and to efforts to promote the recovery and healing of male perpetrators.
(c) All Community Safety and Well-Being Councils (see Recommendation C.15) should integrate
initiatives to promote and support healthy masculinities in primary prevention strategies, in strategies to intervene in and respond to the perpetration of gender-based violence, and in efforts to promote the recovery and healing of male perpetrators.

50. Recommendation P.1
PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE CRITICAL INCIDENT RESPONSE
The Commission recommends that All Canadian police agencies should implement five principles of effective critical incident response:
1. Prepare for critical incidents before they happen, first by acknowledging that they can arise, by training personnel, and by establishing clear roles and responsibilities for critical incident response.
2. Recognize that every critical incident is unique, and therefore that training and preparation must equip first responders, communications (911) operators, supervisors, and commanders to make decisions and act in conditions of considerable uncertainty.
3. Ensure that planning, policies, and training include other agencies that will be involved in a critical incident response, fostering a culture of interoperability among emergency responders.
4. Recognize that affected community members are the "true first responders" to a critical incident, and that they will play a crucial role in any critical incident response including by providing information to police and communications operators. Police agencies should engage in clear, timely, and accurate public communications, including information that will help community members to protect themselves and others, during a critical incident.
5. Evaluate every critical incident response after it takes place, whether the response went well or not. Identify lessons learned, areas for improvement, and practices that should be emulated. All personnel who are involved in a critical incident response should be included in a post-incident evaluation. In turn, these lessons should be shared in purposeful and coordinated ways to ensure institutional and public learning.

51. Recommendation P.2
EMERGENCY OPERATIONAL PLANS
The Commission recommends that
The RCMP should ensure emergency operational plans are current and utilized throughout all divisions.

52. Recommendation P.3
CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL AND RECREATIONAL DRUGS
The Commission recommends that The RCMP should amend its Code of Conduct to state clearly that members must have no alcohol or recreational drugs in their system while on duty, and that they must not report for duty or self-deploy if they have consumed alcohol or recreational drugs.

53. Recommendation P.4
SUPERVISION DURING A CRITICAL INCIDENT RESPONSE
The Commission recommends that:
(a) The RCMP should amend its policy to identify which non-commissioned officer will attend the scene of a critical incident response. This person must attend as soon as possible.
(b) During a critical incident response, the name and rank of the person who holds command and the name and rank of the scene commander should be recorded in the incident log and broadcast frequently by radio.
(c) Supervisors who have not been tasked with commanding the response should refrain from giving direction to responding members.

54. Recommendation P.5
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES DURING A CRITICAL INCIDENT RESPONSE
The Commission recommends that RCMP policies should be amended to make roles and responsibilities during a critical incident response clearer. In the period before a critical incident commander assumes command, ad hoc command of the response should be situated with a suitably experienced, properly trained, and appropriately resourced supervisor within the district command structure.

55. Recommendation P.6
FRONT-LINE SUPERVISOR TRAINING
The Commission recommends that The RCMP should commission an external expert review of its initial critical incident response training for front-line supervisors (ICIR 100 and ICIR 200), to be completed within six months of the publication of this Final Report. This evaluation should be published on the RCMP’s website.

IMPLEMENTATION POINTS
This review should assess:
• whether existing mandatory training adequately equips front-line supervisors to exercise initial command until an accredited critical incident commander takes command (noting that present RCMP practice means that it may be several hours before a critical incident commander assumes command);
• the rate of compliance with mandatory training requirements among front-line supervisors;
• whether the existing ICIR 200 course adequately equips front-line supervisors to exercise initial command until an accredited critical incident commander takes command; the rate of completion of ICIR 200 among front-line supervisors; and
• whether ICIR 200 should be mandatory for front-line supervisors, with or without amendments.

56. Recommendation P.7
BASIC COMMAND EQUIPMENT
The Commission recommends that Every critical incident commander should have a "ready go duty bag" with them at all times when they are on call. This bag should contain necessary equipment including police radio, RCMP cellphone, laptop with access to RCMP Computerized Integrated Information and Dispatch System and mapping technology, charging cables, critical incident commander guidebook, and checklists.

57. Recommendation P.8
TRAINING FOR CRITICAL INCIDENT DECISION-MAKING
The Commission recommends that The RCMP and other first-responding agencies should engage with appropriate experts and training institutions to incorporate "grim storytelling" and other skills of critical incident decision-making into basic and advanced training for police and communications operators. This training is especially important for critical incident commanders, risk managers, and front-line supervisors. These skills should be reinforced in critical incident command and emergency management courses and practiced regularly.

58. Recommendation P.9
RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF CRITICAL INCIDENT COMMANDER
The Commission recommends that The RCMP should put policies and standard operating procedures in place to ensure that an accredited critical incident commander with access to all relevant RCMP systems and infrastructure assumes command of a critical incident response as soon as possible after a critical incident begins, even if this means that the command post is physically distant from the critical incident.

60. Recommendation P.11
INCIDENT LOGGING SOFTWARE
The Commission recommends that The RCMP should review its incident logging software to ensure that it allows call-takers and dispatchers to capture all information, and that standard operating procedures ensure that Operational Communications Centre staff members are able to capture all relevant information, even for complex incidents. These procedures should be scalable so that, during a critical incident, communications operators are following the same procedures they follow for more routine calls.

61. Recommendation P.12
CALL-TAKER TRAINING AND STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES
The Commission recommends that:
(a) The RCMP and Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office should review call-taker recruitment and
training to ensure that 911 call-takers are trained to capture all information shared by a community member as fully and accurately as possible, and to listen for background noises or information that may also be important for first responders.

(b) RCMP dispatchers should be trained and standard operating procedures should require that information obtained by call-takers be shared using standard language that signifies the source of the information (e.g., caller says she saw the person carrying a gun; call-taker heard possible gunshots in the background of the call). Important information should be shared repeatedly, and updates or conflicting information should routinely be identified.