Canada, US look to make permanent a marine program tested during the Olympics and G20, and create a land-based version.
Under a new perimeter security plan, Canada and the United States are aiming for police in both nations to be able to permanently cross the maritime border and enforce each other’s laws—and for a new program to permit the same across land.
Shiprider, a marine cross-border law enforcement program that began in 2005 and has involved six pilot projects between the RCMP and the US Coast Guard, is being planned to become a permanent fixture of Canada-US policing by the summer of 2012.
As well, a new land-based version of the program, which the RCMP says could eventually draw in American agents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Drug Enforcement Administration, could also be floated by next summer in the form of two pilot projects. (...more)
