Tracking down the callers who prompted lockdowns at three Kamloops schools this month could mean looking to the U.S.
Kamloops RCMP Supt. Brad Mueller told the city’s co-ordinated enforcement committee on Monday that calls in the city and across the province appear to have originated in the United States.
“It’s very difficult to trace,” Mueller said. “The level of technology of the young people who are involved in that, they’re able to route the calls through the Internet using various servers.”
Mueller said it’s not clear why callers would be targeting schools in Canada, but noted it could limit what police can do to prosecute whoever is making the threatening phone calls.
Both Westsyde secondary and David Thompson elementary were disrupted by an anonymous phone call last week.
A week before that, Summit elementary was threatened via phone.
Mueller said the calls are a drain on police resources and difficult for the schools, but added Kamloops isn’t alone in dealing with the problem.
In at least one case, Mueller said, the same caller made threats to three schools in the province.
“It’s an incident that’s happening right across the country,” he said.
“The only good thing that’s come out of this is that we’ve gotten very good practice of our emergency plans in our schools.”
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