The RCMP Commissioner, Mike Duhami, says that the federal step to tell the Carttals organized crime as terrorist entities to fight the virtane trafficking will give Mounties more tools to follow up on charges and enforce the law.
In an interview on Thursday, Duheme also said that he sees value in the government’s plan to appoint Caesar Ventanil National, because he will allow one person to see a comprehensive picture of the manufacture and distribution of dangerous drugs.
US President Donald Trump threatened to impose a strict tariff against Canada, citing the southern flow of migrants and drugs, including fentanel.
The American border patrol statistics indicate that less than one percent of the seized fentanels were found on the northern border.
Trump agreed to a month’s stoppage on definitions, while the United States evaluates whether the recent measures in Canada meet his demands.
The federal government revealed a plan of $ 1.3 billion in December to support security and monitoring on the border between Canada and the United States. It announced additional plans this week about Caesar Ventanil, and a new ability to collect intelligence information on national organized crime and move in the narration of drug gangs as terrorist organizations.
The listing process begins with intelligence reports indicating whether the organization has been intentionally carried out, or attempted to implement, participate, or facilitate terrorist activity.
If the Minister of Public Safety believes that the threshold has been met, the minister may recommend the Federal Council of Ministers to add the organization to the list. Then the list is published if the cabinet approved the recommendation.
The listed group has not been banned and is not included in its inclusion is not a crime – but the appointment is effectively freezing the assets and property of the group, which is also subject to confiscation or confiscation.
“It is an additional tool for law enforcement when we discuss accusations,” Duhim said.
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The term “Cartel” may evoke the concepts of drug princes who conspire in Latin American countries.
Duheme noted that the cartel can be defined as a group of independent participants in the market who are consistent and agreed to not compete with each other.
“You can use the term cardman for any group of organized crime,” he said. “Because they divide the region, they want to make sure that the market price is the same.”
He said that the grass war occurs only when “people feel hungry” and want to expand their lands.
He added: “I think there are a lot of external motorcycle gangs that can be eligible like cartals as well.”
A recent report of the Criminal Intelligence Service in Canada said that the organized crime groups participating in the manufacture of fentanel are mostly operating in British Columbia and Ontario. In addition to those provinces, crime groups participate in distribution and trafficking, and are increasingly dependent on street gangs and outlaw motorcycle gangs.
On Thursday, the Minister of Public Safety David McGateti was asked whether the planned terrorist lists could include the outlaw motorbike gangs.
“We will have more to say about this listing process and from that list in a timely manner,” he said.
Duheme also indicated that the private council office was still working to determine the role of the Vintanel Caesar.
But he suggested that the Caesar collect information from RCMP and other agencies to provide the prime minister and ministers with a general sense of “everything that happens in Canada when it comes to fentanel.”
McGintity said on Thursday that the reference conditions for the new position will be completed soon.
He said: “The role of the Ventanil Caesar will be to help us integrate what is a complete challenge to society.”
“Fintanel is the issue of foreign affairs. It is a law enforcement issue. It is an intelligence issue. It is a public health issue. It is a problem that follows in terms of components that end up using it in the production of fentanel and sects.”
The federal border security plan, which was announced in December, included a around the clock surveillance intelligence division on the borders of Canada, using helicopters, drones and surveillance towers.
Canada has also suggested to the United States the creation of a “common strike force” in North America to target border -operating organized crime groups.
Duhaimi said that RCMP plans to rent a Black Hawk helicopter next year to supplement the couple who started carrying out the border last month.
He said that the Canadian component of the force of a joint strike will require five RCMP officers and others throughout the country to focus only on fentanel, “from merchants to laboratories to the flow of ectops.”
Duhami said the strike force would include teams in the United States cooperating with their Canadian counterparts.
Although the amount of fentanel coming from Canada is relatively small, the number of migrants heading south who were arrested by the American border patrol significantly decreased, McGontity said that the United States’ fears should be taken seriously.
“I think we should listen carefully to everything coming from the White House and act accordingly,” he said. “But what we really focus is public safety now.”
McGaneti said that US officials reminded that illegal drugs were traveling north.
He said: “This is a two -way street.” “The fentanel crisis is particularly terrible because the fentanel is very fatal – it is fatal in Canada and it is fatal in the United States.”
– With a file from Nick Murray
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