What is a Marine Security Operations Centre?
A Marine Security Operations Centre is the physical and organizational embodiment of National inter-agency and interdepartmental capability. Consisting of a core partnership that includes the Canada Border Services Agency, Department of Fisheries and Oceans/Canadian Coast Guard, Department of National Defence, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Transport Canada, each Centre co-locates the staff of the combined partners and enables them to undertake joint activities in support of integrating the marine security situational awareness. The primary function of the Marine Security Operations Centres is to enable agencies and departments to work collaboratively to prepare and distribute consistent, timely and trustworthy inter-agency and interdepartmental marine intelligence, information and data to national, provincial, local and international agencies. These agencies will integrate the marine intelligence, information and data into the total situational awareness picture that will be used b