Note
Author affiliated with:
Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo.
"TSAS is supported as a national strategic initiative funded by SSHRC and Public Safety Canada, along with the following departments of the federal government: Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)".
Summary
"Canada’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams (INSET), operated by the RCMP, have been an integral part of Canada’s post-9/11 counter-terrorism apparatus for a little over a decade. As with analogous institutions in other countries, the goal of the INSETs was to counter the problem of 9/11, diagnosed as a failure to connect the dots, by bringing together all relevant stakeholders into common institutions. This paper is a first step in studying their emergence and evolution. First, the existing literature on evaluating counter-terrorism is reviewed, and a number of concerns with existing methods are outlined. it will be argued that evaluating the INSETs requires taking three things seriously: first, the limits of the rational model of cost-benefit analysis; second, the politics of security; and third, the difficulties of doing security research. Next, the history of the INSETs in the context of the RCMP’s national security program will be reviewed, noting key points of change. Finally, there will be a discussion on how the model of integration exemplified by the INSETs influence efficiency (the use of resources), effectiveness (how well the institution works relative to its stated goals), and effects (the impact of policies on politics and society). The results are preliminary and are part of a larger, comparative project."--Includes text from page 1.
Contents
What do we mean by effectiveness? -- Limits of cost-benefit analysis -- Effects not just effectiveness -- The politics of security -- Challenges of security research -- The integrated model and the evolution of Canada's INSET's -- Trends in national security policing -- i. Formalization -- ii. Co-ordination -- iii. Information gathering and sharing -- Conclusion -- References.