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Article: Sharing jurisdiction: Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Mounted Police continue efforts in strengthening relations and ...
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- Coast Guard Magazine
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- November 1, 2007
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A pilot project in cross-nation cooperation could mean bad news for smugglers and other lawbreakers along Washington's maritime border with Canada.
The Shiprider Project is bringing new enforcement capability to both the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the U.S. Coast Guard.
The maritime boundary between Canada and Washington snakes through approximately 160 miles of water in jagged "S" shapes and curves giving smugglers an angle to take advantage of when evading law enforcement on both sides of the border. With that in mind, Brad Kieserman, chief of operations law at the Coast Guard's Office of Maritime and International Law, set out to create a ...