The RCMP is continuing to press Canada’s Minister of Public Safety to end the ban on selling decommissioned police vehicles and parts – a moratorium that the Mounties say is causing operational problems and costing the national force about $13-million a year in lost revenue.
The RCMP has been unable to sell any surplus equipment since January, 2021, nine months after a gunman in Nova Scotia created a look-alike patrol car and impersonated an RCMP officer as part of a killing spree that claimed 22 victims. The moratorium was announced after a second impersonation incident, in which a 23-year-old man from Antigonish, N.S., was accused of attempting to pull over drivers around Halifax using what looked like an unmarked police vehicle.
In both cases, the vehicles were former police cars bought through the federal government’s surplus equipment auction service, GCSurplus.
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