IN DEPTH: TORONTO BOMB PLOT CASE
Agencies involved in the operation
CBC News Online | June 5, 2006
Saturday, June 3, 2006.
Mississauga, Ont.
The RCMP hold a 10 a.m. news conference to release some of the details of a series of raids that were carried out in the Toronto region the previous evening. All the media had been told to that point was that several people had been arrested under Canada's anti-terrorism act, accused of plotting to blow up a target or targets in southern Ontario.
RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell tells dozens of journalists that the investigation that led to the arrests involved more than 400 police and security experts and involved thousands of hours of work.
Among the agencies he lists that were involved in the investigation and raids are:
- The RCMP, Canada's national police force.
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada's civilian spy agency.
- Toronto Police Services, Toronto's municipal police force.
- Peel Region Police, which provides police services for cities west of Toronto including Mississauga and Brampton.
- Durham Region Police, which provides police services for cities east of Toronto including Pickering and Oshawa.
- Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET), which consists of members of the RCMP, CSIS, Canada Border Services Agency, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and Toronto, Peel and Durham police services.
INSET was created in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. In April 2002, the federal government set aside $64 million over a five-year period to set up INSETs in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.
The government decided that counter-terrorism efforts require an integrated approach to improve chances of detecting plots early and preventing threats to national security.
The RCMP's National Security Intelligence Sections was refocused and became INSET. In theory, by combining resources, these teams would:
- Increase their collective capacity for the collection, sharing and analysis of intelligence among partners.
- Create an enhanced investigative capacity to bring targets that are a threat to national security to justice.
- Enhance the collective ability of partner agencies to combat national security threats.
INSETs are made up of representatives of the RCMP, federal partners and agencies such as Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), and provincial and municipal police forces.
The INSETs were designed to help the RCMP work more closely with its national and international partners in the collection and sharing of vital intelligence.
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