Cross-Border CooperationCross-Border Cooperation
November 17, 2003November 17, 2003
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Purpose
• Highlight how Canada and US advance cross-border cooperation Canada-US law enforcement contextChallenges, successes, and lessons learned
• Consider how Canada-US tools might be applied to bilateral/multilateral relationships within the hemisphere
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Canada-US Relationship
• Complex relationship with many challenges
• Different methods but similar objectives
• Success relies on intelligence-led and multi-disciplinary approaches
• Canada-US Smart Border Declaration post 9-11 renewed commitment to enhance border cooperation
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Cross-Border Crime Forum:Overview
• Bilateral consultative mechanism first established in 1997 to address emerging problem of cross-border crime
• Has since evolved to address various cross-border law enforcement and national security concerns
• Focus on development of best practices and tools to resolve operational/policy/legal obstacles
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Cross-Border Crime Forum: Successes
• Joint Threat Assessments Applied to organized crime, firearms trafficking,
identity theft, migrant smuggling, and illicit drugs Leads to informed policy development
• Development of multi-agency enforcement teams IBETs
• Enhanced information exchange MOU to facilitate electronic exchange of fingerprints
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Cross-Border Crime Forum:Lessons Learned• Success achieved with strong, sustained political
leadership
• Agenda set based on joint priorities
• Strong secretariat, long-term and ad hoc working groups to drive agenda
• Ensure broad spectrum of stakeholders
• Coordination and cooperation need not be expensive
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Cross-Border Crime Forum: Workshop
• Workshop will address themes raised in this presentation
• Timeframe: March 29-April 1, 2004 (location to be determined)
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Cross Border Law Enforcement: Tools
• The Cross-Border Crime Forum sets the policy direction for Canada-US cross-border law enforcement cooperation
• The Royal Canadian Mounted Police develop the law enforcement tools that we use to fight crime at the border
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Intelligence-led Policing
• Uses criminal intelligence analysis as an objective decision-making tool
• Develops effective policing strategies
• Involves external partnerships and a change of culture and process
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Criminal Operational Model
• Introduced in early 2000
• Management tool/guide for criminal operations
• Focus all resources on priorities
• Planning to become:• Intelligence-led• Proactive, and allows for strategic and tactical
decision making
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Criminal Operational Model
• Integrated intelligence
• Threat Assessment (Sleipnir)• Intelligence Sharing
• Integrated operations
• Integrated Teams• Cross-Border Cooperation
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SLEIPNIR
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SLEIPNIR: Workshop
• Analytical threat-measurement technique
• Assesses the relative threat posed by crime groups
• Sets national operational priorities based on the level of threat
• 20 participants, 5-days, Feb 2004, South America
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Undercover Operations: Workshop
• Establishment of an undercover program • Benefits and dangers in undercover operations
• Selection process for undercover personnel
• Focus on the countries of the Andean sub-region.
• 20 participants, 5-day workshop, South America, Feb 2004.
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Human Sources and Source Witness Protection: Workshop • Financial and psychological support
• Security issues
• Address human rights concerns
• Consistent standards in multi-jurisdictional cases • 20 participants, 5-days, Caribbean, 2004
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Conclusion
• By working together to manage the various aspects of the drug problem at and across our hemisphere’s borders, we will all be doing our part to address the hemispheric drug problem
