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Ottawa Fire Services has changed its flag protocol after they received complaints for refusing to fly flags at half-mast to honour the RCMP officers killed in Moncton, N.B.
The new protocol announced on Tuesday allows the Ottawa Fire Services duty officer to decide if flags should be lowered in circumstances not outlined in the policy. The new policy also allows the department consult with other emergency services, such as the Ottawa police and paramedics, about flag lowering.
The policy changes were made after firefighters told the Citizen said they believed the department’s decision not to lower the flag was disrespectful to the three RCMP officers who were killed by a gunman on June 4.
Firefighters also voiced discontent that the policy allows for flags to be lowered for long-retired politicians, but not other members of the emergency services community who were killed in the line of duty.
Dave Clarke, the assistant deputy chief of special operations, wrote in an internal e-mail that it was against the fire department’s protocol to lower the flags for the fallen police. Both Ottawa police and paramedics lowered their flags to half-mast.
According to the fire department’s former protocol, flags could only be lowered on national days of mourning, if a firefighter in Canada dies in the line of duty, or if a police officer or paramedic in Ottawa is killed on the job.
The flag can also be lowered for other noteworthy deaths, such as a current or former prime minister, a current or former lieutenant-governor, a current senator, Ottawa’s mayor or a city councillor.
mhurley@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/meghan_hurley
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The new protocol announced on Tuesday allows the Ottawa Fire Services duty officer to decide if flags should be lowered in circumstances not outlined in the policy. The new policy also allows the department consult with other emergency services, such as the Ottawa police and paramedics, about flag lowering.
The policy changes were made after firefighters told the Citizen said they believed the department’s decision not to lower the flag was disrespectful to the three RCMP officers who were killed by a gunman on June 4.
Firefighters also voiced discontent that the policy allows for flags to be lowered for long-retired politicians, but not other members of the emergency services community who were killed in the line of duty.
Dave Clarke, the assistant deputy chief of special operations, wrote in an internal e-mail that it was against the fire department’s protocol to lower the flags for the fallen police. Both Ottawa police and paramedics lowered their flags to half-mast.
According to the fire department’s former protocol, flags could only be lowered on national days of mourning, if a firefighter in Canada dies in the line of duty, or if a police officer or paramedic in Ottawa is killed on the job.
The flag can also be lowered for other noteworthy deaths, such as a current or former prime minister, a current or former lieutenant-governor, a current senator, Ottawa’s mayor or a city councillor.
mhurley@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/meghan_hurley
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