More than a week af­ter a probe was launched in­to records and stor­age fa­cil­i­ties at the Reg­i­ment’s Cu­mu­to Bar­racks where 25,573 rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion went miss­ing last month, there is no time­line for when it will be com­plet­ed.

On Feb­ru­ary 20, the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty an­nounced that a team of re­tired sol­diers and po­lice of­fi­cers had been ap­point­ed to in­ves­ti­gate the mech­a­nisms in place to man­age stor­age of am­mu­ni­tion.

Co-chair of the in­ves­tiga­tive team, ret’d Col Lyle Alexan­der, said they are still work­ing out the sched­ule for the en­quiry and there is no time­line for the probe.

“We’re work­ing on that when we put the sched­ule to­geth­er,” he said.

“There are a whole lot of pieces in play at the mo­ment and we need to syn­chro­nise for want of a bet­ter word and as soon as that is done, we will have a bet­ter pic­ture of what the time­line will be.”

Alexan­der clar­i­fied that the com­mit­tee’s re­mit is not to find out if or how any am­mu­ni­tion went miss­ing, but to re­view the process­es in place.

“Our re­mit is look­ing in­to the man­age­ment process of the man­age­ment of am­mu­ni­tion in the or­gan­i­sa­tion,” he ex­plained. - Shane Su­perville