Canada Border Services Agency: Officers

B.C. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews Dept: The Canada Border Services Agency said in 2006 that it planned to arm its 4,800 guards within 10 years and so far, just under half have been trained, according to The Chronicle Herald. One thousand officers a year, given the expansion of the frontline officers that we ve done is remarkable good progress, Toews said Wednesday in Ottawa and sURREY, B.C. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says he s not interested in speeding up the arming of border guards, despite the shooting Tuesday that sent a guard at a B.C. crossing to hospital with a gunshot wound. But Toews says he s concerned that any effort to speed up that training might compromise safety. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.