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BORDER OFFICER [14 records]

Record 1 2025-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Positions
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Customs and Excise
OBS

A position at the Canada Border Services Agency. BSOs are namely responsible for enforcing laws and regulations related to immigration and customs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Postes gouvernementaux
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Douanes et accise
OBS

Poste à l'Agence des services frontaliers du Canada. Les ASF appliquent notamment les lois et règlements liés à l'immigration et aux douanes.

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Customs and Excise
OBS

A CBSA officer may work at a port of entry, at a removal office, or at an immigration holding centre.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Douanes et accise
OBS

Un agent de l'ASFC peut travailler à un point d'entrée, dans un bureau de renvoi, ou dans un centre de surveillance de l'immigration.

Spanish

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Record 3 2025-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Customs and Excise
CONT

Border services officers (BSO) safeguard Canada's security and prosperity by ensuring the free flow of admissible people and goods, while supporting national security and public safety priorities. They work at 1,200 points of service across the country, including land borders, international airports, marine terminals, rail ports, and postal facilities, to enforce laws and regulations that touch nearly every sector of Canadian society.

Key term(s)
  • border-services officer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Douanes et accise
CONT

Les agents des services frontaliers (ASF) protègent la sécurité et la prospérité du Canada en facilitant la libre circulation des personnes et des marchandises admissibles, tout en appuyant les priorités en matière de sécurité nationale et de sécurité publique. Ils travaillent dans 1 200 points de service partout au pays, y compris dans des postes frontaliers terrestres, des aéroports internationaux, des gares maritimes et ferroviaires et des installations postales, afin d'appliquer les lois et règlements qui touchent presque tous les secteurs de la société canadienne.

Spanish

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Record 4 - external organization data 2023-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 5 - external organization data 2023-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 6 - external organization data 2023-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 7 - external organization data 2022-09-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
OBS

"A" Division (Ottawa, Ontario).

Key term(s)
  • Assistant Criminal Operations Officer, Organized Crime and Borders Integrity
  • Assistant CROPS Officer, Organized Crime and Borders Integrity
  • Assistant Criminal Operations Officer, OCBI
  • Assistant CROPS Officer, OCBI
  • Assistant Criminal Operations Officer, Organised Crime and Border Integrity
  • Assistant Criminal Operations Officer, Organised Crime and Borders Integrity
  • Assistant CROPS Officer, Organised Crime and Border Integrity
  • Assistant CROPS Officer, Organised Crime and Borders Integrity

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)
Key term(s)
  • officier responsable adjoint des Enquêtes criminelles, COIF
  • officière responsable adjointe des Enquêtes criminelles, COIF
  • OREC adjoint, COIF
  • OREC adjointe, COIF

Spanish

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Record 8 - external organization data 2022-09-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
OBS

"O" Division (Ontario).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)
OBS

Division O (Ontario).

Spanish

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Record 9 - external organization data 2022-09-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
OBS

"O" Division (Ontario).

Key term(s)
  • Assistant CROPS Officer, BINS

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)
Key term(s)
  • officier responsable adjoint des Enquêtes criminelles, IFSN
  • officière responsable adjointe des Enquêtes criminelles, IFSN
  • OREC adjoint, IFSN
  • OREC adjointe, IFSN

Spanish

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Record 10 - external organization data 2022-09-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
OBS

"O" Division (Ontario).

Key term(s)
  • Assistant Criminal Operations Officer, Borders Security
  • Assistant CROPS Officer, Borders Security

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)
OBS

Division O (Ontario).

Spanish

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Record 11 - external organization data 2022-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Universal entry(ies)
3567
occupation code, see observation
OBS

3567: Royal Canadian Mounted Police job code.

OBS

OIC: officer in charge.

OBS

The member is responsible for: developing strategies and leading investigation teams from various agencies involved in complex investigations related to organized crime, criminal organizations and serious criminal activities and targeting the disruption and dismantling of the criminal element at the national borders; managing the law enforcement programs related to border integrity, customs and excise, immigration and passport, and federal enforcement; and liaising and collaborating with other law enforcement agencies and government departments on border enforcement.

Key term(s)
  • OIC, Borders Integrity
  • OIC Border Integrity
  • OIC Borders Integrity
  • Officer in Charge, Border Integrity
  • Officer in Charge, Borders Integrity
  • Officer in Charge Border Integrity
  • Officer in Charge Borders Integrity
  • Border Integrity, OIC
  • Borders Integrity, OIC
  • Border Integrity OIC
  • Borders Integrity OIC
  • Border Integrity, Officer in Charge
  • Borders Integrity, Officer in Charge
  • Border Integrity Officer in Charge
  • Borders Integrity Officer in Charge

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
3567
occupation code, see observation
OBS

3567 : code d'emploi de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada.

OBS

off. resp. : officier responsable; officière responsable.

OBS

Le membre remplit les fonctions suivantes : établir des stratégies et diriger des équipes d'enquête de divers organismes dans le cadre d'enquêtes complexes relatives au crime organisé, aux organisations criminelles et à des activités criminelles graves, et viser la perturbation et le démantèlement de l'élément criminel aux frontières nationales; gérer les programmes d'application de la loi liés à l'intégrité des frontières, aux douanes et à l'accise, aux questions d'immigration et de passeport et à l'exécution des lois fédérales; assurer la liaison et collaborer avec les autres organismes d'application de la loi et ministères gouvernementaux en ce qui touche la police des frontières.

Key term(s)
  • officier responsable, Intégrité des frontières
  • officière responsable, Intégrité des frontières
  • Intégrité des frontières - off. resp.
  • Intégrité des frontières - officier responsable
  • Intégrité des frontières - officière responsable

Spanish

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Record 12 - external organization data 2021-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
OBS

NCO I/C: non-commissioned officer in charge.

OBS

"E" Division (British Columbia).

Key term(s)
  • NCO I/C Border Enforcement Team and Water Front Joint Forces Operations
  • NCO I/C Borders Enforcement Team and Waterfront Joint Forces Operations
  • NCO I/C Borders Enforcement Team and Water Front Joint Forces Operations
  • NCO IC Border Enforcement Team and Waterfront Joint Forces Operations
  • NCO IC Border Enforcement Team and Water Front Joint Forces Operations
  • NCO IC Borders Enforcement Team and Waterfront Joint Forces Operations
  • NCO IC Borders Enforcement Team and Water Front Joint Forces Operations
  • Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge, Border Enforcement Team and Waterfront Joint Forces Operations
  • Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge, Border Enforcement Team and Water Front Joint Forces Operations
  • Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge, Borders Enforcement Team and Waterfront Joint Forces Operations
  • Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge, Borders Enforcement Team and Water Front Joint Forces Operations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)
Key term(s)
  • sous-officier responsable de l'Équipe de la police des frontières et des Opérations policières conjuguées riveraines
  • sous-officière responsable de l'Équipe de la police des frontières et des Opérations policières conjuguées riveraines

Spanish

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Record 13 2003-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
OBS

Terminology used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
OBS

Terminologie employée par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

Spanish

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Record 14 2000-07-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
OBS

Terminology used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
OBS

Terminologie employée par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

Spanish

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