On Dec. 4, 2023, The Berlin City Council voted to have its police force participate in the Attorney General’s Northern Border Task Force along the Swanton Sector, stretching from parts of New York, through Vermont, and including the entire northern New Hampshire border.
But criminal activity along the NH-Canadian border is at a 20-year low. Transportation of illicit drugs, nationally, decreased in the prior fiscal year — fentanyl seizures were down by 30 percent. In fact, in fiscal year 2023, only one pound of fentanyl was seized at the border in the Swanton Sector, and it came through a port of entry, not in between.
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