Commissioner Thomas Carrique believes that the police would have been better placed to disrupt transnational crime if the federal government had listened to his group in 2001, during his last proposal for such changes.
According to him, “geopolitical instability and social agitation are behind a new wave of public security threats,” he wrote in a press release published on Tuesday, while Canadian police are faced with transnational transnational crime, extremism, drug trafficking and Internet exploitation.
He claims that the current law aimed at strengthening border security proposed by the federal government gives the police many tools, but not all those necessary, to combat global crime.
The Government states that Bill C-2 would help the authorities to combat organized transnational crime, to stop the circulation of fentanyl, to combat money laundering and to strengthen the police response to criminal networks.
Thomas Carrique, Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, says that the law is closely harmonized with several resolutions adopted by the ACCP during its annual conference, which is held this week in Victoria, but that there are a certain number of gaps which must be filled to reflect the realities of the crime of the 21st century.