What is the purpose of the Marine Security Operations Centres?
The Marine Security Operations Centres are aimed at enhancing marine intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities by shifting from an individual agency/departmental approach to a collaborative effort among specific federal agencies with a vested interest in marine security. The Centres will provide for greater marine security awareness on Canadas three coasts and will help detect, assess and respond to any threat to marine security that could adversely affect the safety, security, environment or economy of Canada. These include foreign trans-national organized crime (drug trafficking, piracy, migrant smuggling), emerging terrorist activity, over-fishing and polluters. The Centres enable marine intelligence and operations information and data that are collected by the partner agencies/departments to be transformed into an integrated marine situational awareness and contingency planning product.
