Transcript Cross-Border Cooperation

Cross-Border Cooperation
November 17, 2003
Purpose
• Highlight how Canada and US advance
cross-border cooperation
 Canada-US law enforcement context
 Challenges, 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
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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
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