VICTORIA - The head of the Canada's police chiefs association says they are guided by "outdated and inadequate" laws that were never designed to take on the current criminal landscape that no longer respects international borders.

Thomas Carrique, president of the Association of Chiefs of Police, says police would have been in a better place to "disrupt" transnational crime, if the federal government had listened to his group in 2001, when it last proposed such changes.

Carrique says "geopolitical instability and social unrest" around the world are driving what he called "a new wave of public safety threats" as Canadian police confront transnational organized crime, extremism, drug trafficking and exploitation through the internet.

He says the current Strong Borders Act legislation prop

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