Note
"This strategic assessment is based on files dated between January 2005 and August 2007."
"This report was prepared by National Intelligence Analysis, Criminal Intelligence, Royal Canadian Mounted Police."
"Unclassified."
Issued also in French under title: Projet SPAWN : une évaluation stratégique des activités criminelles et de l'infiltration du crime organisé dans les aéroports de catégorie 1 du Canada.
Summary
In the past few years, incidents of organized crime
involvement in large drug seizures at major Canadian
international airports have garnered much public attention
and brought to the forefront issues of criminal activity
within the airport environment. As a result, the RCMP,
in partnership with other stakeholders, has undertaken
an assessment of criminal activity and organized crime
infiltration at Canada’s Class 1 airports.
This project began in January 2007 and provides
a strategic overview of the issue based on qualitative
and quantitative data from eight airports – Vancouver,
Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa,
Montreal (Trudeau) and Halifax.
Contents
Executive summary --
Introduction --
Methodology --
Challenges --
Airport facts --
Agency roles and responsibilities --
Organized crime groups at Canada’s class 1 airports --
Types of criminal activity by organized crime groups -
Organized crime groups infiltrating the airports --
Organized crime groups linked to internal conspiracies --
Employees involved in criminality --
Security clearance issues --
Employees linked to internal conspiracies --
Links between airports --
Cargo screening --
Other trends of interest --
Conclusion --
Appendix A. Methodology: list of all criteria used to select data.