Nunavut RCMP issue warning about standoff underway in Iqaluit
Police ask people in the 200s to stay inside and avoid the area
The RCMP respond to an incident in Iqaluit last year. A new bill tabled in the Nunavut legislature would allow for independent investigations to look at police-involved civilian injuries or deaths in the territory. (File photo)
The Iqaluit RCMP said at 6:30 this morning that its members are currently dealing with “a dynamic situation that is quickly unfolding in the 200 block of the city.”
The RCMP said in a news release that residents in the 200s area of Iqaluit should stay inside and avoid the area.
Members of the Iqaluit RCMP and the V Division Containment Team are on the scene and have a house surrounded, the release said.
Further updates will be provided as the situation unfolds, according to the RCMP.
Another stand-off and a successful outcome thank you to the person involved who must have used common sense. and to the RCMP who must have worked to prevent a potential tragedy from happening. We in Iqaluit and the rest of Nunavut must recognize the stress level these operations, and there are many, put on our protectors, and remember to thank them and their families. Thank you for your service.
Oh so RCMP actually DO SAVE PEOPLE’S lives after all? Where are all the genius keyboard scholars asking to defund them?
The voices to “defund” the police are actually asking policing to return to only “policing”. Currently Policing includes managing every issue under the sun including mental health calls, wellness checks, home care issues, truancy calls, squabbles between neighbors, and many many more issues that current systems simply doesn’t prepare or adequately train police for. Defunding the police doesn’t mean to get rid of policing but instead speaks to providing the right resources for the required job. Perhaps a social worker would be better to deal with mental health issues or even wellness checks and a community negotiations officer may be better to resolve neighborly squabbles. Lets save our police for policing.
So, social workers should be responding to ‘wellness checks’ or ‘mental health calls,’ which have the potential for becoming violent? At that point, social workers are no longer ‘trained’ to respond. We need to look very critically at what these mental health calls actually involve, because they are not simply arriving at a home, having a conversation and suddenly everything is better. Perhaps more training for police relating to mental health is needed, but to say that mental health professionals should be taking over these calls is very premature.
Defund means defund, stop making up baloney and believing your own cr ap. If anything, police need more funding and more resources. Without them we won’t have the peaceful, civilized, lawful communities. I am starting facts, you are making up stories.
I wish Nunatsiaq had a like button.
Was alcohol involved in this standoff?