Data: Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security: Canada – U.S. Border Security (December 12, 2024)
CBSA staffing and budget data
Personnel: Includes all type of tenures including students and casuals.
Workforce: Although students are part of our workforce, they are technically not employees.
| Year | Personnel | Workforce |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8,500 frontline (FB) | 8,100 frontline (FB) |
| 16,700 total | 16,300 total | |
| 2014 | 7,600 frontline (FB) | 7,400 frontline (FB) |
| 13,700 total | 13,500 total |
- Attrition of Border Services Officers (FB)
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The Agency loses on average 365 Border Services Officers each year; 145 leave mostly due to retirements, and 220 from internal movement.
The CBSA College accounts for this attrition in its annual planning exercise by inviting close to 576 new recruits into the College each year, ensuring that the workforce remains stable, while also supplementing capacity for major projects and initiatives like Asylum.
- Student Border Services Officer Program (SBSO)
- The CBSA hires over 1000 SBSOs annually across all provinces
- National Targeting Centre
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325 employees
226 Criminal Investigations - CBSA staff internationally
- Officers are deployed in 40 missions in 35 countries
- Frontline personnel training
- 576 new recruits each year (aimed to produce 490 deployable recruits)
CBSA operational data
From to , the CBSA: Achieved in collaboration with local, national and international partners
Detector dogs
28,600 searches
Over 17,000 interceptions
- High-risk foods
- Plant and animal products
- Drugs
- Firearms
- Currency
Drugs
- Seized over 25,600 kg of illegal drugs (inbound and outbound)
- 4.9 kg of fentanyl (775% increase from the same period in 2023)
- 3,955 kg of cocaine (168% increase from the same period in 2023)
- 37 kg of heroin
- 21,457 kg of other drugs, narcotics and precursor chemicals
- 237 kg of other opiods (Opium, methadone, morphine, morphine base)
- Intercepted over 15,000 kg of cannabis
- Intercepted over 547,000 kg of undeclared tobacco
Guns
7,700 weapon and firearms seizures at ports of entry
- Kept more than 15,600 weapons of streets
- 1,274 were seized coming from the U.S.
- Kept more than 850 firearms off streets
- 50 more than the same period in 2023
- 750 were seized coming from the U.S.
Auto theft
Intercepted 2,070 stolen vehicles before shipped abroad
- 500 more than the same period in 2023
- CBSA acts on 100% of referrals from police
Human smuggling
, to
Opened 586 criminal investigations suspected human smuggling
- Laid charges in 197
- 16 of these under S.117 of the IRPA
- 13 cases are closed
- 12 convictions
Travellers
Welcomed over 80.5 million travellers to Canada
- 31.8 million by air
- 45.1 million by land
- 3.3 million by marine
- 336,000 by rail
9% increase in travelers than the same period in 2023
Deportation and removals
As of
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total number of removals | 8,314 | 15,179 | 12,401 |
| Voluntary number allowed to leave | 28,090 | 37,360 | 34,446 |
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orders issued | 2,099 | 2,508 | 2,028 | 2,313 | 1,194 | 1,465 | 2,008 | 2,435 | 2,774 | 18,824 |
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orders issued | 900 | 1,144 | 1,161 | 1,200 | 573 | 691 | 916 | 1,319 | 1,290 | 9,194 |
Detentions
As of
- 13,818 individuals were enrolled in alternatives to detention
- 158 individuals were detained within immigration holding centres
- 34 others within provincial correctional facilities or local police agency holding cells
Over 30 million foreign nationals enter Canada each year and 0.02% are subject to detention
Intelligence and information sharing
As of
2,613 requests for Information from police partners
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