Skip to main content

Gangs and Drugs: Maintaining Border Security Using Crime Analysis and GIS

Date created
2014-06-27
Authors/Contributors
Abstract
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the Canadian border. There are multiple layers of complexity involved in protecting Canadian land and citizens. Drug smuggling in particular is a large focus for the agency. This paper provides an overview on the fundamentals of crime analysis as it is used in the intelligence capacity to conduct risk assessments as they pertain to foreign travellers and goods attempting to enter Canada. In addition, the complexity of gang networks as they are involved in drug smuggling are examined, as well as how CBSA can utilize network analysis and geographic information systems (GIS) to aid investigations and operations planning.
Document
Identifier
etd8579
Copyright statement
Copyright is held by the author.
Permissions
The author has not granted permission for the file to be printed nor for the text to be copied and pasted. If you would like a printable copy of this thesis, please contact summit-permissions@sfu.ca.
Scholarly level
Member of collection
Download file Size
etd8579_NWereschuk.pdf 1.28 MB

Views & downloads - as of June 2023

Views: 66
Downloads: 2