Canadian Border Guards - Who Don't

["Gary Funck" <gary () intrepid com>]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-border19feb19,0,6963268
.story?coll=la-home-headlines

North Border's Guards Who Don't
Lacking guns, Canadian customs workers often walk away when danger nears
from the U.S.
By Sam Howe Verhovek
Times Staff Writer

February 19, 2006

BLAINE, Wash. — The 100-mph car chase ended in a blaze of gunfire at the
Peace Arch, the graceful marble monument that straddles the U.S.-Canada
border here and proclaims the two nations to be "Children of a Common
Mother."

As two murder suspects from California blew past the U.S. customs station
and raced north for the border, a deputy sheriff managed to ram their
vehicle with his squad car, spinning it down an embankment and across a
broad lawn between the two border stations before it finally came to a stop.
The suspects fled on foot, and in the ensuing gun battle, one was wounded;
in the end, they were captured.

Although the Jan. 24 episode was by far the most dramatic encounter between
fugitives and law enforcement officers at the border in recent months, the
reaction on the Canadian side unfolded along a standard — if contentious —
script: The Canadian border guards walked off their posts.

Roughly a dozen times in the last four months, Canadian border guards, who
unlike their U.S. counterparts are unarmed, have left their posts in
response to reports of dangerous suspects heading north.
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