BCCC ENFORCEMENT BRANCH OVERVIEW

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BCCCENFORCEMENT BRANCHOVERVIEW

• Presentation by Claudette Deschenes
• Vice-President, Enforcement Branch
• Canada Border Services Agency
• October 11, 2006

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1. Public Safety Portfolio

• Public Safety portfolio responsibilities include
• Operational agencies
• Policing and law enforcement (RCMP)
• Security intelligence (CSIS)
• Border security (CBSA)
• Corrections and parole (CSC and NPB)
• Emergency Management (DPS)
• Independent review and oversight
• Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP
  (CPC)
• Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI)
• RCMP External Review Committee (ERC)
• Portfolio benefits
• Improved policy coordination
• Better integration among law enforcement and
  security organizations
• CBSA key member of the law enforcement community

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2. CBSA Enforcement Key Strategies

• Multiple Borders, or Pushing the borders out
• Not just the Canada US border
• Interception at earliest opportunity
• Security vs. facilitation
• Intelligence-based Enforcement
• Get the right information to the right person, at
  the right time
• Invest in risk assessment and trends analysis
• Focus on high risk vs. low risk travellers
  and goods
• Requires close cooperation between intelligence
  and enforcement programs

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3. CBSAs Enforcement Programs

• Investigations
• CBSA conducts criminal investigations and
  prosecutions for customs offences.
• 270 prosecutions in 2005-2006.
• Currently building capacity to prosecute
  immigration contraventions.
• Inland Enforcement
• CBSA detains and removes persons for immigration
  contraventions.
• Removed 11,286 persons in 2005-2006.
• Border Enforcement
• Marine, rail, air, highway and postal contraband
  programs
• Detection technology

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4. CBSA Intelligence Programs

• Borders Intelligence
• Internationally
• Intelligence Liaison
• Interdiction and interception MIOs and CSI
• International partnerships and relationships
• Domestically
• Tactical and operational intelligence collection
  and dissemination
• Participation in Joint Forces Operation
• Human sources
• National Security Screening
• In-depth screening of persons and goods
• Terrorism, War Crimes, Organized Crime,
  Subversion
• Strategic Exports and Imports
• Analysis and Assessment
• Intelligence products
• Threat assessments
• Strategic intelligence
• Information sharing
• CBSA manages relationships with domestic and
  international partners including the program
  administration of Customs Mutual Assistance
  Agreements (CMAA) and other instruments involving
  disclosure of information for intelligence and
  investigative purposes.

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6. Cooperation with other organizations

• Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
• Work with CBSA to screen immigrants and visitors
  to Canada, and to analyze threats to Canadas
  border
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
• Work with CBSA to enforce border legislation,
  arrest and prosecute criminals, process
  fingerprints, and share data
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police Integrated Proceeds
  of Crime (RCMP/IPOC) Units
• Integrated Border Enforcement Teams (IBETS)
• Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC)
• Provincial and municipal police forces
• Provide support and intelligence through networks
• Multiple partners
• Work with OGDs, law enforcement organizations and
  international organizations to prevent document
  fraud

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7. Other Partnerships

• Federal Partners
• Citizenship and Immigration
• Public Safety, Transport, Justice and Foreign
  Affairs
• Law enforcement agencies
• Domestic and international
• Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police
• Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC)
• Private sector
• Supply chain security Partners in Protection

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8. International Agreements

• Partners
• WCO, G8, Interpol
• DHS, CBP Exchange of terrorist screening
  information
• MOUs, treaties
• Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)
• Major security and trade initiatives between
  Canada, US and Mexico
• Involves information sharing, border facilitation
  and document integrity initiatives
• CBSA must ensure that shared information is
  correct and is used properly

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9. Selected Initiatives

• War Crimes Program
• Deny entry to war criminals (RCMP, Justice,
  Immigration)
• Our Missing Children
• Locate and return abducted children (RCMP, police
  and foreign customs)
• IPOC
• Seize funds linked to money laundering or
  terrorist financing (RCMP, CBSA)
• Integrated Border Enforcement Teams
• Enhance border security between ports of entry
  (joint Canada / US)
• Partners in Protection / E-Manifest
• Enhance supply chain security through
  partnerships and advance information
  (stakeholders / CBSA)
• Support to Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative
• Enhance border security and prosperity by working
  with stakeholders (stakeholders / CBSA)

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10. Key Challenges and future perspectives

• Enforcement
• Prosecution Strategy
• Partnerships
• Intelligence
• Information sharing
• Privacy issues
• CBSAs Strategic Plan
• Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)
• Arming Border Services Officers