CrossBorder Cooperation

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Cross-Border Cooperation

• November 17, 2003

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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 ForumOverview

• 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 ForumLessons 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
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• 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
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• 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
  hemispheres borders, we will all be doing our
  part to address the hemispheric drug problem