Canada Border Services Agency: Pepper Spray

Border Stations Dept: There were 147 such incidents at border stations in 2011-2012, a significant drop from 184 in the previous year, according to CTV. The Canada Border Services Agency logs every incident in which their officers draw or discharge their duty sidearms, and pull out or use their truncheons and pepper spray and 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. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.