Ottawa Community News
OTTAWA, Canada — Ottawa’s paramedic service may consider assigning its specially trained tactical paramedics in parts of the city that have seen a rising number of gang-related shootings.
While difficult to predict where future shootings may occur, a number of incidents involving gunfire have rocked the west end of the city and Nepean, leaving a trail of wounded victims and spent shell casings.
“That’s something that we might look into is to place a tactical paramedic in and around those zones to be able to respond with police when they get that call,” said J.P. Trottier, spokesman for the Ottawa Paramedic Service.
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