Training for a career on the front line

2016-09-08
The CBSA is recruiting border services officers (BSOs). Our BSOs undergo an extensive training and development program to ensure they have the knowledge, skills and on-the-job training they need to be prepared for the front line.

Think you have what it takes? Apply now

Transcript

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Narrator: We're trained to read between the lines…

Three BSOs talk and walk away from the camera as they arrive to start their shift in the morning

Three recruits running along a forested path at the CBSA College

Recruit in the gym engaged in battle ropes as part of physical training with instructor looking on

A recruit and an instructor practice defensive techniques in a training exercise

Narrator: ……to keep our borders safe…

Recruits observe an instructor demonstrating defensive techniques

Close up of the hands of recruit being handcuffed during a demonstration

Narrator: …and to enforce law…

Close up of BSO guiding an individual in handcuffs

BSO guides a handcuffed individual to a holding cell while another BSO opens the cell door

Narrator: …to ensure the free flow of people,

Time lapse view of travellers going through the Customs Hall of an international airport

Narrator: …and goods…

Time lapse view of shipping containers being loaded from trucks onto a ship docked at a port

Narrator: …with professionalism, integrity, and respect.

Instructor teaching recruit how to conduct a luggage search

BSO at an airport conducting a search of a traveller’s luggage

BSO searching a shipping container with a flashlight

BSO smiling and welcoming a traveller

Narrator: This is how we are prepared…

Recruits running up a path to a building at the CBSA College

Instructor demonstrating how to conduct a baggage search with a detector dog

BSO searches luggage with a detector dog at a port of entry

Narrator: …for life on the front line.

Aerial time lapse of vehicles travelling through a border crossing at dusk

Three BSOs talking and walking across primary inspection lines as the sun is setting off camera

Narrator:  Are you ready…for life on the front line?

Three BSOs talking and walking across primary inspection lines towards a building as the sun is sets off camera

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Canada Border Services Agency
cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/jobs

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© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada.
represented by the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, 2016

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