Border Guards: Canadian Border Guards

Pepper Spray Dept: OTTAWA - Fewer border guards drew their guns, batons and pepper spray last year in an abrupt reversal of a previous trend toward greater use of force at Canadian border points, according to Winnipeg Free Press. It marks the first significant decline in so-called use-of-force incidents over the last five years, a period during which guards were armed with handguns for the first time. Previously, officers had to call the local cops to deal with dangerous travellers and canadian border guards are silhouetted as they replace each other at an inspection booth at the Douglas border crossing on the Canada-USA border in Surrey, B.C., on August 20, 2009. An internal report from the Canada Border Services Agency shows Canada's border guards are pulling out their guns, batons and pepper spray less often. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck There were 147 such incidents at border stations in 2011-2012, a significant drop from 184 in the previous year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.