Canada/US Border Integrity Thread

[dapaterson]

No- but operational effectiveness doesn’t just rely on badged members. A civilian intelligence analyst, or financial crime civilian investigator might bring a lot more to the table that some RCMP NCO plucked out of headquarters, and ordered to put on a uniform and stare at some tRees at the border for a month.

RCMP civilian intelligence analysts make more work for uniformed RCMP members...

 

[SeaKingTacco]

RCMP civilian intelligence analysts make more work for uniformed RCMP members...

Hey! That was like one time….

 

[dapaterson]

Hey! That was like one time….

 

[brihard]

RCMP civilian intelligence analysts make more work for uniformed RCMP members...

Well there was that one guy, yeah. Though in defense of their analysts, he was an executive.

 

[PrairieFella]

I've just recently gotten into the immigration side of my job. It's interesting but very complex.

That's the missing granularity. "Personnel" doesn't always translate into uniformed, badged members for your org or mine.

I may work for IRCC...IRPA is always a headache lol

 

[dapaterson]

Well there was that one guy, yeah. Though in defense of their analysts, he was an executive.

 

[Haggis]

No- but operational effectiveness doesn’t just rely on badged members. A civilian intelligence analyst, or financial crime civilian investigator might bring a lot more to the table that some RCMP NCO plucked out of headquarters, and ordered to put on a uniform and stare at some tRees at the border for a month.

Totally agree. But program officers and "pet" project managers don't catch smugglers, even though they are "personnel".

I'm jaded enough to see what may happen based on "growth promise" experiences in almost 5 decades in my agency and the green machine.

 

[Jarnhamar]

I've just recently gotten into the immigration side of my job. It's interesting but very complex.

What's the biggest challenge?

 

[Haggis]

What's the biggest challenge?

People

 

[caleb377]

Not sure I buy the 89% stat without seeing how they’re measuring it. But one thing’s for sure, adding aerial assets means they’re expecting more than just families showing up with bags. When this stuff edges into homeland security territory, legal oversight gets tricky. Feds usually bring in teams like Oberheiden to keep agency actions clean under international law, they’ve handled DOJ and border-related scrutiny before