Finding fentanyl: enhancing police strategies

With the growing opioid crisis in Canada, millions of dollars being spend fighting it and many deaths as a result of it, fentanyl has become an up and center issue in Canadian society of recent years. Some argue that the epicentre and focus of this crisis, is in the province of British Columbia (BC). By gathering secondary and statistical data from various agencies and reviewing and analysis academic literature published, this report contains a mixed methods approach to examining ways in which police can better strategize their approach to enhancing their ability to finding fentanyl before it gets sold of the street. Contained within this report, are elements touching on what fentanyl is and where it comes from, what laws in Canada have to fighting fentanyl, and strategizes in which police can utilize to finding fentanyl.