US,Canadian officials sign Law Enforcement Pact

Canadian Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan, left, and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano shake hands after signing a pact, know as the Shiprider program, in Detroit, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. The pact will allow officers with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and U.S. Coast Guard to ride each others' vessels for joint patrols and specific enforcement operations. Vessels now must stop at the border and call the other nation's agencies for help.

(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

The United States and Canada adopted an agreement Tuesday to allow law enforcement authorities of both nations to share personnel and cross the border more easily to fight human, drug and weapon smuggling on waterways that separate them.Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Canadian Minister of Public Safety Peter Van Loan met to formally sign the pact at a cargo facility at the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit and Windsor, Ontario....