District Enforcement Team and Marine Division

We have a container examination team, a marine division, a Halifax airport division and a commercial division.

4.3. The Committee recommends that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) conduct a risk / threat assessment to determine what personnel, equipment, and financial resources it needs to re-establish the Marine Division and to police the St. Lawrence Seaway, St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes, the Fraser and Skeena Rivers, and inland waterways identified as high risk.

I want to welcome Gary Sidock, Director General, Fleet Directorate, Canadian Coast Guard, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Chief Superintendent Russ Mirasty, Director General, National Aboriginal Policing Services, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Chief Superintendent Joe Oliver, Director General, Border Integrity, Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Philip Whitehorne, Chief of Operations, Inland Enforcement Section, Intelligence and Enforcement Division, Northern Ontario Region, Canada Border Services Agency; Donald Roussel, Director General, Marine Safety, Transport C ...[+++]anada; and Brigadier-General S. Kummel, Director General — Plans, Strategic Joint Staff, National Defence.

53. Commends the work of the EDA in laying the groundwork for achieving ‘Pooling and Sharing’ through harmonising requirements and projects as regards naval training and logistics; welcomes the Wise Pen team’s 2012 study of maritime requirements and capabilities; in light of the EDA’s mandate and expertise, urges the Members States to resort to its advice and technical assistance when faced with the need to cut defence budgets, so as to avoid compromising strategic capability development across the EU, which needs to address gaps and shortfalls in a coordinated manner; encourages Member States to work with the EDA to identify capability needs, par ...[+++]ticularly civilian, military and dual-use capabilities in the maritime domain; urges the HR/VP, assisted by the EDA and DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, to identify all naval and maritime assets that meet the maritime capabilities and requirements of 2012 and which are at risk of being lost by EU Member States as a result of financial and economic constraints, and to look at ways to preserve them and put them at the service of the EU Integrated Maritime Policy and the future EMSS;