SASKATOON, Sask. (Aug. 2, 2005) — The RCMP and Saskatchewan’s Crime Stoppers have teamed up with Yanke Group of Companies to combat smuggling and enhance national security.

The RCMP Pipeline-Convoy-Jetway program is a police initiative to detect travelling criminals utilizing the province’s transportation system. In attempts to help secure Canadian highways, the RCMP and Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers program, along with Yanke, have united to encourage tips and information be called in for anyone with information of smuggling and other criminal activity, or information relevant to public and national security concerns.

Commencing this month, each of Yanke’s 1,100 trailers will display a 2′ x 2′ decal encouraging these tips.

“The current challenges to enforcement and security have shown that it is no longer simply a law enforcement problem to secure our highways but rather that we all have a commitment to ensure that our transportation system is secured,” says an RCMP release.

The “Yanke” model is an initiative that the RCMP and Crime Stoppers plan to roll out throughout the transportation industry across the country.

For more information, contact Sgt. Rob Ruiters at 306-780-3462 or rob.ruiters@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.