Kelly Sundberg

Kelly W. Sundberg (born Kelly William Gingles, 1972) is a Canadian law enforcement, public safety, and public security scholar and a former border services officer.
Early life and education
Sundberg was born in Calgary, Alberta to Gary William Gingles and Linda May Yaworski and attended Selkirk Secondary School in Kimberley, British Columbia. He studied Political and Social Science at the University of Victoria, and graduated in 2004 with a master's degree from Royal Roads University while co-editing Border Security in the Era of Al Qaeda with John Winterdyk. In 2013 Sundberg completed his doctor of philosophy at Monash University, focusing on a comparative study of border enforcement issues between Canada and Australia in his thesis Comparing approaches to internal immigration enforcement: a study of Australia and Canada.
Law enforcement career
Field work
Sundberg joined Canada Customs (later Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, and later still Canada Border Services Agency) in 1993. During his 14-year service, Sundberg held various field positions, including customs officer, immigration officer, inland immigration enforcement officer, superintendent (not to be confused with a superintendent in a Canadian police service), border services officer, senior policy officer, and Minister’s counsel. His service earned him several citations from Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, as well as other organizations, for such achievements as the apprehension of a top 10 most wanted fugitive, and contribution to the recovery of abducted children.
Policy work
Sundberg participated in and lead several substantial policy reviews that resulted in practical recommendations for transformation processes that occurred within Canadian border law enforcement. Most prominent amongst them were his contributions to:
* The development of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
* The amalgamation of Canada Customs (from the now-defunct Canada Customs and Revenue Agency) with border and enforcement personnel from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
* The arming of CBSA officers, who for the first four years since the agency's inception, guarded Canada's borders unarmed
Academic career
Sundberg has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University since 2006. He also holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Environmental Design, an Adjunct Professor position in the Adelaide Law School at the University of Adelaide, and a fellowship with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He is an active scholar and researcher in the areas of national security, immigration enforcement, policing methodologies, and crime reduction through design, and is involved with a number of university and community committees. Sundberg was recognized in Kristi Holsinger’s 2012 book Teaching Justice: Solving Social Justice Problems through University Education as an Innovator in the teaching of justice studies. Sundberg, along with Filipuzzi and Trussler, developed and patented the SAFE Design Standard.
In 2014 Sundberg was approached by Dan Levinson to form a non-profit center of excellence on methodologies relating to policing and security. Together they held consultations with ministers and deputy minister of public safety and security, chiefs of police, heads of intelligence sections, and other senior security and law enforcement officials in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Sundberg and Levinson then turned to community and corporate leaders in order to garner their interest in actively participating in such an initiative. This undertaking lasted eighteen months, and resulted in positive responses from officials and the public, bringing Sundberg and Levinson to formally establish the Public Safety and Security Research Group, with Dr. Michele Braun, MBA at MRU.
Sundberg is a regular contributor on regional, national, and international news media regarding border security, public safety, crime, grievance-based violence, and terrorism, and is recognized as one of Western Canada's foremost criminologists.
Publications
*Sundberg, K.W. (2014). Leading Within the Era of Superagencies: Recruiting, Educating, Inspiring, and Retaining the Post-9/11 Generation of Officers. In B.D. Fitch (Ed.) Law Enforcement Ethics. Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications Inc.
*Harvey, J., Ferrill, J., Sundberg, K., Stirling, B., Harmston, J. (2014). Pandemic: The Next Aviation, Border and National Security Threat. Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers. Vol. 22(2). 1 - 34.
*Sundberg, K.W. (2013). Internal Immigration Enforcement as a Key Feature in National Security: A Review of Australia and Canada. The Journal of the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers. 21(1). 3 - 20.
*Sundberg, K.W., Trussler, T.E. & Winterdyk, J.A. (Oct 2012). Public Opinion of Canadian and Australian Border Security: Comparing Public Confidence. Journal of Policing, Intelligence, and Counter Terrorism (JPICT). 7(2). 98 - 114.
*Finch, D., McIntyre, S., & Sundberg, K. (Jul 2012). The Vancouver Riot Hangover: Crowdsourced Justice and Public Shaming. Mount Royal Centennial Reader. 3.
*Sundberg, K.W. & Watson, D. (Apr 2011). Safer Roadways, One Tweet at a Time. Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Gazette. 73(1). 36.
*Sundberg, K.W. & Winterdyk, J.A. (Dec 2010). Assessing Public Confidence in Canada’s New Approach to Border Security. Journal of Borderlands Studies. 25(3). 1 - 18.
*Winterdyk, J.A. & Sundberg, K.W. (2010). Shifts in Canadian Border Security. In J.A. Winterdyk & K.W. Sundberg (Eds.) Border Security in the Al-Qaeda Era. Boca Raton, Florida: Taylor & Francis Group.
*Winterdyk, J.A. & Sundberg, K.W. (Eds.). (2010). Border Security in the Al-Qaeda Era. Boca Raton, Florida: Taylor & Francis Group.
*Winterdyk, J.A. & Sundberg, K.W. (Nov/Dec 2009). Building the Invisible Wall: Today’s Canada-United States Border. LawNow - Journal of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. 34(2). 33 - 35.
*Winterdyk, J.A. & Sundberg, K.W. (Jun 2009). Human Trafficking: Need for Reform in Canada. Crime and Justice International. Online Journal. www.crimeandjustice.com
*Winterdyk, J.A. & Sundberg, K.W. (Mar 2009). Human Trafficking: An International Tragedy. LawNow - Journal of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. 33(4). 33 - 35.
*Sundberg, K.W. & Mason, K.A. (Aug/Sep 2008). Evaluating anti-gang education programs: Canada & USA. Blueline Magazine. 16 - 18.
*Reichel, P. L., Winterdyk, J.A., Höpfel, F., Bruckmüller, K., & Sundberg, K.W. (2008). Cross-National Collaboration to Combat Human Trafficking: Learning from the Experience of Others (TDL 2008-313). Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.
*Sundberg, K.W. & Winterdyk, J.A. (Apr/May 2006). Building our neighbours fence. Crime and Justice International. 22(91). 19 - 22.
*Winterdyk, J.A. & Sundberg, K.W. (Dec 2004). The price of national security: a sandcastle in disguise. LawNow - Journal of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. 29(3). 30 - 32.
*Sundberg, K.W. (Dec 2003). Border security still a low priority. Blueline Magazine. 31.

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