Monday, November 1, 2010

Use-of-Force Up at Border

(Canada Border Services Agency photo)


Troublesome travellers are prompting more Canadian border officers to draw their guns, use pepper spray, and swing their batons.


An internal report shows so-called use-of-force incidents jumped 170 per cent over the past four years.

Canadian border officers have fired just one bullet since they started carrying guns in mid-2007.

It happened last summer, when an injured moose was put down on a B.C. highway.