"The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has established a task force to help keep gang-related activity from crossing the U.S.-Canada border at Windsor, Ont. Windsor police chief Gary Smith was in Detroit on Wednesday to announce a new, US-Canada task force to monitor the Detroit-Windsor border. (Dennis Porter/CBC)The Border Enforcement Security Task Force, or BEST, comprises law enforcement officers at the federal, state and local levels in the U.S. and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada Border Services Agency, Ontario Provincial Police and Windsor Police Service in Canada." (Source: CBC News, "Canada, U.S. join forces at Detroit-Windsor border," October 28, 2009)
(NOTE: This story is a follow-up to, "Detroit-based task force targets crime spilling over U.S. border," detnews.com, October 28, 2009, at, "http://detnews.com/article/20091028/METRO/910280413/Detroit-based-task-force-targets-crime-spilling-over-U-S--border") |
