Missed prison break alerts opportunity for improvement, says Island mayor

Reflecting on the district’s response in the hours after news broke that a prisoner was unaccounted for at the William Head Institution in late June, Metchosin Mayor Marie-Térèse Little acknowledges there is room for improvement.
“This is not a catastrophe,” she said. “It’s an opportunity for us to look at our emergency management, look at what we did right, and then identify the gaps in the system.”
One of those gaps identified is the emergency