Customs Officers: Immigration

Christmas Eve Dept: CBSA upper managers, in a long-running dispute with the 4,800-member Customs and Immigration Union over whether customs officers should be armed during joint operations, made the announcement in a written statement late Christmas Eve, according to Montreal Gazette. But the officers, trained in specialized searches, say they need to be armed when taking part in operations with police because the work can be dangerous and typically they are not told what type of situation they are walking into and in a surprise move, Canada's Border Service Agency has permanently halted all joint operations with police forces across the country. The customs officers' union has constantly maintained that its work with police forces is helping keep drugs, guns and explosives off Canadian streets. As reported in the news.
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