Between mid-December and the end of March, police inspected about 400 shipping containers at the Port of Montreal and found nearly 600 stolen vehicles, most of them from the Toronto area. A shipping container is loaded onto a container ship in the Port of Montreal on Tuesday, Sept.19, 2023. Between mid-December and the end of March, police inspected about 400 shipping containers at the Port of Montreal and found nearly 600 stolen vehicles, most of them from the Toronto area.
Gast's organization participated in Project Vector, the Ontario Provincial Police-led operation at the port that recovered 598 stolen vehicles between December and March. More than 800 police officers from a range of agencies have access cards to enter the port and, if they have a warrant, open containers, Larouche said. However, in customs-controlled areas of the port, only border officers can open containers without a warrant.
"Organized crime doesn't take that risk in the U.S.," he said in a recent interview. "In Canada, we scan less than one per cent" of containers. The CBSA wouldn't say what percentage of containers are scanned every year, but Annie Beauséjour, the agency's regional director general for Quebec, said all containers flagged by police are inspected by border agents.
That's because once a container filled with stolen cars reaches the Port of Montreal, there aren't enough border guards to check it, according to the union representing border officers. In fact, last February, there were just eight border officers working at the port, and the agency lacked space to hold more than six recovered stolen vehicles at a time, union president Mark Weber recently told a parliamentary committee.
Source: Car News Wire (carnewswire.net)
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