About 25 percent of trucks in the protest in the Canadian capital of Ottawa have children in them and police have discussed bringing in the local equivalent of child protective services, according to Steven Bell, deputy police chief.
“We’re not at the stage of looking to do any sort of enforcement activity around that,” Bell said, according to Global News. “We just think it’s an important factor that complicates and makes this an even more challenging operation.”
There currently are 418 trucks in Ottawa, Bell said, and there have been talks with Children’s Aid Society.
He said there are “Concerns about safety, the risk of carbon monoxide and fumes, the noise levels, [we’re] concerned about cold, we’re concerned about access to sanitation, the ability to shower — there’s a multitude of concerns,” he said.
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