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Barry Balerud knows the important role intelligence can play in fighting crime. Now he and his team are working hard to make other law enforcement officials see it the same way. Balerud has been the director of Criminal Intelligence Service Alberta (CISA) for about two and a half years now. But his relationship with the… Read more »

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Sgt. Colette Zazulak and many of her colleagues at the Integrated Threat and Risk Assessment Centre (ITRAC) know just how hectic it can be on the front lines of law enforcement. That’s why they are proud of the role they play behind the scenes. Zazulak is a certified threat assessor and the operations manager at… Read more »

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After 17 years as a police officer, not much crosses Det. Kris Bombier’s desk that is unfamiliar to him. But when he was handed the file for a case of a man suspected of manufacturing machine guns in a shop just west of Edmonton, it was a rare occurrence. Bombier is a member of ALERT’s… Read more »

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Inside ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit office in Calgary, there’s a whiteboard on which investigators write down the status of files they’re working on. Between April and June 2017, though, as ICE was carrying out Operation Icebreaker, that whiteboard was fuller than usual. “We were taking photos [of the whiteboard] because there were just… Read more »

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The numbers look alarming: Statistics from ALERT’s organized crime and gang team in Medicine Hat show a nearly tenfold increase in the amount of methamphetamine seized each year from 2015 to 2017. But, according to Staff Sgt. Cory Both, it’s not bad news. In fact, it’s an aggressive enforcement response to a trend that police… Read more »

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Ten times more potent than fentanyl. Five thousand times more potent than heroin. Ten thousand times more potent than morphine. A dose the size of a grain of sand can be fatal. The statistics surrounding carfentanil, the newest and most powerful opioid to emerge in the Alberta drug market, are alarming. And so far, most… Read more »

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When Const. Nicolas Laforge went to his staff sergeant proposing an investigation into Simon Yuen and his organized crime group, he had no idea how big it would be. But, a year later, in November 2017, there he was along with other members of ALERT Calgary’s Organized Crime Team (OCT) as media gathered video and… Read more »

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When reports connecting a seizure of 100 kilograms of methamphetamine in Utah to drug dealers in Calgary began to cross Staff Sgt. Barry McCurdy’s desk in late 2016, he wanted to know more about the group’s Canadian connection. So he and his team started an investigation – and it turned into one of ALERT’s biggest… Read more »

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