Pubdate: Sun, 14 Jan 2007
Source: Province, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2007 The Province
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/theprovince/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/476
Author: Matthew Ramsey, The Province

HIGH-TECH TOOLS SNAG CROSS-BORDER SMUGGLERS

Since Sept. 11, 2001, information sharing among Canadian and U.S. law
enforcement agencies has improved, along with technical methods of
drug detection at the border.

About half of commercial vehicles searched are flagged as potential
smugglers before they reach the border, says Jan Brock, Canada Border
Services Agency chief of commercial operations for the Pacific Highway
District.

The other half are unloaded and searched based on the suspicions of
officers, with a greater emphasis on commercial-vehicle searches.

Officers use gamma-rays, X-rays and radiation detectors, and
drug-sniffing dogs.
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