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Top officer says Canada’s laws are ‘inadequate’ to fight cross-border crime
The Association of Chiefs of Police highlights gaps in the Strong Borders Act that limit police efforts against drug trafficking, money laundering, and online exploitation, officials said.
- Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Thomas Carrique said at the annual conference in Victoria this week that Canada’s laws are inadequate to fight cross-border crime.
- He explained that outdated laws and unresolved loopholes have left police without necessary tools to confront the realities of 21st-century transnational crime.
- Carrique highlighted that geopolitical instability and social unrest are driving new public safety threats, including organized crime, drug trafficking, extremism, and internet exploitation.
- The federal government’s proposed Strong Borders Act seeks to address organized crime, restrict fentanyl trafficking, intensify efforts against money laundering, and enhance law enforcement capabilities to tackle criminal networks.
- Carrique said police would have been better equipped to disrupt transnational crime if his group’s 2001 calls for legislative changes had been heeded, indicating current laws need urgent updating.
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Canada’s laws ‘outdated and inadequate’ to fight cross-border crime, head of police chiefs group says
VICTORIA -- The head of the Canada's police chiefs association says they are guided by "outdated and inadequate" laws that were never designed to take on the current criminal landscape that no longer respects international borders.
The President of the Association of Chiefs of Police of Canada states that its members are guided by "old and inadequate" laws, which have never been designed to deal with the current criminal landscape, which no longer respects international borders.
Canada’s police unable to address criminal landscape at border, top officer says
The head of the Canada’s police chiefs association says they are guided by “outdated and inadequate” laws that were never designed to take on the current criminal landscape that no longer respects international borders.
Winnipeg Free Press
Top officer says Canada's laws are 'inadequate' to fight cross-border crime
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
VICTORIA — The President of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) states that they are guided by outdated and inadequate laws that have never been designed to attack the current criminal landscape, which no longer respects international borders. Commissioner Thomas Carrique believes that the police would have been better placed to disrupt transnational crime had the federal government listened to his group in 2001 when he last prop…
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