Police need better communication and training to shut down meth and fentanyl superlabs, experts say

Canada needs to improve its policing of illicit methamphetamine and fentanyl labs by creating better communication between its various law-enforcement agencies and correcting the way RCMP officers are trained in evidence gathering, according to critics on both sides of the United States border.A recent Globe and Mail investigation explored why only one man had been charged after separate raids of a stash house and then, three weeks later, a so-called “superlab” drug production facility in southeastern British Columbia last fall. The Globe has been examining the toxic drug crisis and the impact it has had on the country as part of its Poisoned series on what law enforcement can – or can’t – do about the flow of fentanyl and even more dangerous derivatives.