I absolutely love integrated units. I think this is the key for
multiple municipal police agencies, as well as provincial and federal,
to all work together to fight the same problems. Why waste time trying
to fight for jurisdiction? When there is an integrated unit, for
example, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) that consists
of RCMP, delta police department, Vancouver police department, and many
other municipal police departments in the lower mainland. Members with
different skills and experience can work together efficiently and not
have to deal with jurisdictional boundaries. I think this is going to be
the best in the future.
Whenever I look at the United Sates on the other hand, they are
always fighting over jurisdiction. They’re wasting time fighting while
they should be fighting crime. For example, metro police, sheriffs
department, state troopers, FBI, etc. There are too many agencies. BC is
good at having cooperative investigations, teams and units. There is
the RCMP that conducts all federal crimes and most provincial crimes
(apart form Ontario and Quebec). Then for municipal police there is the
RCMP and others.
That’s 3 basic stages while the states have many. The smaller, the better in my opinion.
Here is a link to all the Integrated Units/Teams in BC:
http://www.ifnu.ca/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=149&languageId=1&contentId=-1
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