Canada Border Services Agency

Vic Toews Dept: Currently, there are about 2,200 armed Canada Border Services Agency officers spread across the country. The government says it hopes to have 5,500 armed officers in place by 2016, according to Montreal Gazette. The new facility is where all of the officers will be trained. We re trying to train approximately a thousand officers a year, Toews told reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday and public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Wednesday he doesn t think there s a need to speed up firearms training for border officers in the wake of a shooting at the B.C.-Washington state border. This week, it announced the opening of a new $57 million firearms training facility in Rigaud, Que., that houses simulation rooms and an 18-lane firing range. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.