{"id":18162,"date":"2014-11-09T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=18162"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T18:23:16","slug":"rcmp-details-massive-border-security-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/11\/09\/rcmp-details-massive-border-security-project\/","title":{"rendered":"RCMP details massive border security project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s a big border. What’s the best way to secure it?
The 1000 Islands Bridge on the Canadian side. The picture was taken from atop of a Canadian observation tower that is about 300 yards before the U.S.-Canadian border crossing. Image by MJCdetroit<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s another item in the steady march toward tighter and tighter borders. Canada is moving ahead with a $92 million dollar electronic surveillance shield stretching 700 kilometers, from the Quebec-Maine border to the western edge of Toronto.<\/p>\n

As reported by Ian MacLeod for Postmedia News<\/a>, “A massive intelligence-gathering network of RCMP video cameras, radar, ground sensors, thermal radiation detectors and more will be erected along the U.S.-Canada border in Ontario and Quebec” as part of the\u00a0Border Integrity Technological Enhancement Project.<\/p>\n

The project was initially framed as heightened efforts to combat smuggling. According to estimates, it could be operational by 2018. MacLeod reports:<\/p>\n

The network will be linked to a state-of-the-art \u201cgeospatial intelligence and automated dispatch centre\u201d that will, among other things, integrate the surveillance data, issue alerts for high-probability targets, issue \u201cinstant imagery\u201d to officers on patrol and produce predictive analysis reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do have [border surveillance] technologies deployed on a limited scale but \u2026 nothing in terms of the scale of this project,\u201d Assistant Commissioner Oliver said in an interview. Unmanned drones will not be part of the high-tech arsenal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Smuggling goods and people across borders is a longstanding issue. Obviously that now includes worries over terrorism, government surveillance and privacy rights. As mentioned in MacLeod’s article:<\/p>\n

Some Mohawks have already condemned the RCMP plan for \u201chigh-tech weaponry\u201d as an attack on their sovereignty and the economy of the Akwesanse reserve between Cornwall, Ont., and Hogansburg, N.Y.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s more on the “big picture”<\/a> of agency jurisdiction at Canada’s border and various security projects as summarized by a June 2014 article in Government Security News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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