Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair says deficiencies in how police handled protests during last year's G20 summit in Toronto caused in part by inadequate preparation time to properly train personnel.Operational commanders arrived at the site just days before the June 26-27 event, he told CBC's Dwight Drummond in an interview.
"We were putting things in place in a very short period of time," he said.
"I don't offer that as an excuse, but I think it's an important explanation as to why some things might not have worked as perfectly as we had hoped," he told CBC News.
His remarks came after police released an internal report that identified a number of deficiencies in how police handled the protests during the summit at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
The report said other host cities of previous summits were given two years to prepare, while Toronto police had just six months to get ready.
Blair also addressed a finding that said police weren't ready for protesters who used Black Bloc tactics, in which people dress in black to disguise themselves while they vandalize property or confront authorities.
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