Border Security Season 13 Ep 1-7 Marathon! | Border Security Compilation
Summary
TLDRThe video script details the vigilant operations of the Australian Border Force, showcasing various incidents at the border. It highlights the interception of illegal activities, including drug smuggling, undeclared food items that pose biosecurity risks, and individuals breaching visa conditions. The officers use advanced techniques and detection dogs to identify narcotics, concealed items, and unreported foodstuffs. The narrative also underscores the legal consequences faced by those attempting to smuggle prohibited substances, such as pseudoephedrine, and the strict enforcement of agricultural safety protocols to protect Australia's ecosystem. Additionally, the script covers the handling of travelers with suspicious travel patterns or insufficient funds, emphasizing the importance of compliance with immigration laws and the challenges officers face in maintaining security while managing human and emotional aspects of their work.
Takeaways
- 🛃 Border officers are vigilant about unusual behavior and行李 (luggage) contents, using various methods like drug detection dogs and X-rays to identify potential threats to the country's biosecurity and customs regulations.
- 🧳 Travelers attempting to smuggle goods often use deceptive methods, such as hiding items in food products or within the linings of luggage, which can be detected through thorough inspections.
- 🚨 The consequences for violating customs and biosecurity laws can be severe, including hefty fines, visa cancellations, and even criminal prosecution for those involved in smuggling operations.
- 💰 Financial discrepancies, such as insufficient funds for the duration of a stay or unexplained wealth, can raise suspicions and lead to further investigation by immigration officers.
- 📱 Digital devices like phones and laptops are subject to scrutiny, as they may contain evidence of illegal activities or be used to conceal narcotics.
- 🚫 The presence of prohibited items, including certain foods, seeds, and pharmaceuticals, can lead to fines and confiscation, highlighting the importance of declaring all items upon entry.
- 🐕🦺 Detector dogs are valuable assets in identifying concealed items, as they can detect a wide range of substances, from drugs to animal products.
- 🔍 High-risk items, such as fresh produce and animal products, are of particular concern due to the potential for carrying diseases and pests that could harm the local ecosystem and agriculture.
- 💊 Pharmaceuticals are regulated, and travelers are limited to personal use quantities, with commercial quantities requiring proper authorization to avoid legal repercussions.
- 📝 Maintaining proper documentation and being able to provide clear, consistent information during questioning is crucial for travelers to avoid arousing suspicion and facing potential penalties.
- 🏠 Claims of visiting friends or family are verified by officers to ensure the legitimacy of a traveler's intentions and to prevent abuse of the visa system.
Q & A
Why did the officers become suspicious of the passenger who returned from Vietnam?
-The officers became suspicious due to the passenger's unusual behavior around the carousel, his nervousness, and the discrepancy in his story about who packed his bag and what was inside.
What was the passenger from Vietnam trying to hide in his luggage?
-The passenger was attempting to hide narcotics, which were suspected to be inside a cake, based on the dog's positive reaction during the drug detection test.
Why did the Australian Border Force become concerned about the man returning from New Zealand?
-The concern arose due to the man's large sum of money, his involvement with a TV dating show that might imply unauthorized work, and text messages suggesting employment, which could breach his tourist visa conditions.
What was the issue with the woman who claimed to have only cigarettes to declare?
-The issue was that she had undeclared food items, including dried fish, seafood, mushrooms, and Chinese medicine, which she claimed were packed by her son. Additionally, she had a high-risk fresh vegetable and concealed cigarettes disguised as food items.
Why was the passenger with the Vietnamese moon cakes detained?
-The passenger was detained because the moon cakes found in his luggage were suspected to contain narcotics, as indicated by a drug detection dog's positive reaction.
What was the reason for the cancellation of the Malaysian Citizen's visa?
-The Malaysian Citizen's visa was cancelled because he failed to provide a credible reason for his heavy luggage filled with pharmaceuticals, which is a breach of his tourist visa conditions.
Why did the officers decide to perform a secondary test on the moon cakes?
-The officers decided to perform a secondary test on the moon cakes to confirm their suspicions that the cakes were used to smuggle drugs, as indicated by the drug detection dog's positive reaction.
What was the outcome of the woman's attempt to bring undeclared food items into the country?
-The woman was issued a $360 fine for failing to declare the food items. Additionally, all undeclared and prohibited food items were confiscated and destroyed.
Why was the Brazilian woman studying in Australia at risk of having her student visa cancelled?
-The Brazilian woman was at risk of having her student visa cancelled due to unsatisfactory course progress, which is considered a breach of her visa conditions. She also had messages indicating an intention to quit school, which would result in the loss of her student visa.
What was the man from New Zealand arrested for?
-The man from New Zealand was arrested for attempting to import a large quantity of heroin, which was concealed in the lining of his laptop bag and another bag.
What was the reason for the officers to suspect that the four young travelers from Canada and the Netherlands were not genuine tourists?
-The officers suspected that the four young travelers were not genuine tourists due to the unusually large amount of luggage for a 10-day trip, inconsistencies in their stories, and the fact that they appeared to be traveling together despite not knowing each other well.
Outlines
🛃 Suspicious Passenger's Behavior at Carousel
The paragraph describes an incident where a nervous passenger at a carousel raises suspicion. Officers question him about his return to Vietnam for a holiday and a wedding, and the man claims someone else packed his bag with unknown items. The bag is suspected to contain hidden items, and a drug detection dog is called to investigate potential drug smuggling. The narrative also covers another case where a man with a large sum of money raises questions about his visa status and work in Australia, leading to a text message investigation revealing potential work under the guise of a tourist visa.
🧳 Undisclosed Food Items and False Declarations
This paragraph details the story of an Australian resident who attempts to bring undeclared food items into the country. Biocurity officers find a range of items in her luggage, including dried fish, seafood, mushrooms, and Chinese medicine. The woman claims her son packed the items, but officers discover a high-risk fresh vegetable and leakage from a box, leading to further investigation. A drug detection dog alerts officers to a potential narcotics issue, and the woman is found to have multiple identities, prompting further investigation by the Australian Border Force.
🚫 Prohibited Imports and Undeclared Cigarettes
The narrative focuses on a woman who attempts to smuggle a non-commercially prepared vegetable and a large quantity of concealed cigarettes into the country. Despite declaring only five packets, officers find many more disguised as food. The woman feigns illness when confronted, but officers are unconvinced by her act. She faces a hefty fine or possible prosecution, and her cigarettes are seized.
🚨 Drug Smuggling and Visa Violations
The paragraph covers the detection of drugs hidden in moon cakes and the arrest of a passenger by the Australian Border Force investigations team. It also includes the story of a Malaysian citizen on a tourist visa whose suspicious behavior leads to the discovery of his intent to work, breaching visa conditions. Officers find yellow pellets, commonly used by drug smugglers, hidden in chocolate and alcohol boxes, leading to further investigation and potential cancellation of his visa.
📱 Text Message Evidence and Concealed Narcotics
This section describes the investigation of a man's phone, which reveals text messages indicating work while on a tourist visa. Officers find concealed narcotics in the form of yellow pellets within chocolate tins and a box of Johnny Walker. The man is suspected of smuggling drugs internally, and a body scan is planned to determine the extent of his involvement.
🌐 International Travelers and Biosecurity Concerns
The narrative involves the questioning of French and Brazilian travelers. The French traveler is suspected of planning to work in Australia, which would violate her tourist visa conditions. Despite claiming to be in Australia to improve her English, text messages on her phone reveal potential work arrangements. Meanwhile, a Brazilian woman studying in Australia on a student visa is suspected of academic misconduct, and her phone messages confirm her intention to quit school, breaching visa conditions.
🛃 Border Force Operations and Visa Cancellations
This paragraph details the strict enforcement of immigration law, where a student's visa is cancelled due to unsatisfactory course progress. The woman's pleas and her relationship with her Australian boyfriend are considered but do not sway the decision. In another case, the concealment of narcotics in mouthwash bottles leads to the arrest of a man, and a property search is conducted based on a search warrant, revealing more about the operation.
🧳 Unusual Luggage and Concealed Heroin
The narrative involves the inspection of luggage from four travelers, where X-rays reveal large inconsistencies, indicating possible drug smuggling. The bags are found to contain a significant amount of heroin, and the passengers are taken into custody. The Australian Federal Police is called to handle the situation, and the officers express satisfaction with the successful interception of a large drug shipment.
🌿 Biosecurity Risks and Prohibited Items
This section describes the confiscation of prohibited items such as bird's nest, which poses a biosecurity risk due to potential disease. A family is caught with undeclared prawns and bird's nest, leading to a substantial fine. The narrative also covers the case of a Filipino man whose inconsistent stories raise suspicion, and officers find evidence of his previous employment in Australia, breaching his tourist visa conditions.
🚨 Heroin Smuggling and Sequential Baggage
The paragraph details the discovery of heroin concealed in the bases of eight sequentially numbered suitcases carried by a group of people. The Australian Federal Police is involved, and all individuals are taken into custody for further questioning. The officers express concern about missing bags, potentially linked to a larger drug smuggling operation.
🧳 Factory-Style Concealments and Drug Detection
The narrative involves the detection of a sophisticated concealment in a body wash bottle, containing a substance that tests positive for pseudoephedrine, a precursor for manufacturing narcotics like methamphetamine. The passenger is questioned, and despite initial doubts, it is confirmed that he is a genuine student and employee, leading to a positive outcome for him.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Carousel
💡Unusual Behavior
💡Biosecurity
💡Border Force
💡Drug Detection Dog
💡Narcotics
💡Visa Breach
💡Concealment
💡Organic Material
💡Illegal Workers
💡Herbal Medicine
Highlights
Passenger appears nervous around the carousel, raising suspicion of officers.
Man claims he returned to Vietnam for a friend's wedding, triggering alarm bells for officer Natalie.
Individual reports that someone else packed his bag, leading to the discovery of suspicious items.
Cake and other items in the luggage are investigated for hidden substances.
Drug detection dog is called to check for narcotics in the suspicious food items.
Passenger is questioned about his intentions and large sum of money, raising concerns of illegal work.
Business card found in a bag reveals the man's involvement with a TV dating show, complicating the case.
Text messages on the man's phone suggest he has been working, potentially breaching visa conditions.
Woman claims undeclared food items were packed by her son, but further investigation uncovers more.
High-risk fresh vegetable and leakage from a box raise biosecurity concerns.
Passenger is caught with concealed cigarettes disguised as food items.
Woman feigns illness when confronted with the evidence of undeclared and prohibited items.
Man is detained after a presumptive test for pseudoephedrine comes back positive in moon cakes.
Chocolate and alcohol are unusually the only items in a passenger's luggage, arousing suspicion.
Passenger is found to be carrying a large quantity of pharmaceuticals, possibly for resale.
Woman from Brazil is suspected of breaching student visa conditions and is found to have multiple identities.
Man is caught with a concealed stash of narcotics in his luggage, leading to his arrest.
Four passengers are questioned separately, and inconsistencies in their stories raise red flags.
Family returning from Vietnam is found with undeclared shrimp and prawn, posing a biosecurity risk.
Transcripts
we have a passenger who initially
appeared nervous around the carousel
straight away we could see that it
wasn't normal behavior and now officers
want to know the reason for his unusual
behavior so why did you return to
Vietnam for a holiday for
Holiday my friend have your friend had a
wedding alarm bells ring for officer
Natalie as the man now tells her that
someone else has put items in his
bag this is it yours yeah that's mine
what's not
yours the
food yeah
it who put this in
there my friend your friend do you know
what's in here in the rest no did your
friend pack this and then you put your
clothes on top no my friend your friend
put your clothes in the suitcase as well
yeah why before I go to s i ring a lot
up and I FR
you ring a lot yeah and so you were too
drunk yeah to pack your suitcase so your
friend packed it for you the man is
responsible for the contents of his
luggage regardless of who packed it and
experienced officers suspect he's got
something to hide what is this it's cake
cake yeah who are you giving the cake to
for you or for somebody somebody else
for somebody who is that somebody else
my friend his brother too when I come
here his to so your his relative is
going to call you to pick up the case
yeah so he has your number but you don't
have his
yeah the rest is all food for your
friend's relative yeah the passenger
story doesn't add up and officers now
believe he's not telling them the truth
this gentleman is p terrified of being
caught with something in his bag that
doesn't that he's not allowed to carry
with serious concerns that there is
something hidden inside the cakes border
Force call in a drug detected dog if he
smells drugs the dog will
sit good
boy good
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boy this Irish back has just returned to
Sydney after a 1week trip to New Zealand
stating that the purpose of his short
trip away was to renew the Australian
tourist visa he has held for the last 3
months and so what are your intentions
for this particular trip to Australia uh
just to go from Sydney up the East Coast
are you traveling with somebody else
today yeah how do you know that person
damn
yeah how long have you been in a
relationship with with this person uh 2
years what sort of money do you have at
your disposal for expenditure in
Australia uh around 7,000 okay yeah
border force is concerned that the large
sum of money may have come from working
without an appropriate
Visa a bag search has uncovered a
business card confirming the man's
involvement with a TV dating show
officers must now find out if this was
work or play how did you find this work
two girls run up to me on the
street that's what exactly did you have
to do it's kind of like a dating show I
guess so yeah you go on
it you meet people
talk going on a number of dates is not a
concern for Border Force as it's not a
breach of his Visa condition it may
however be a concern for someone else
all right well I won't pry into your
personal life okay
um what is concerning for officer Tim
are the text messages found hidden in
the man's
phone a conversation with another woman
confirms that he has been working well I
don't know what my work is like this
week but definitely meet for an hour
that infers to me that you are actually
working yeah S I can understand why it
sounds like that but it's just an excuse
that I can't meet up all the time I
guess
the man won't admit to working and
instead claims the messages are lies
which he sent to get him out of meeting
a woman but the lies keep coming as text
messages to his girlfriend also refer to
work you've said I'm just finished work
and you've got well I'm working tomorrow
so that's good
okay what can you tell me about these
two text messages from this particular
contact today you are honored to tourist
visa during this
time this Australian resident returning
to Sydney claims that the only things
she has to declare are some cigarettes
in her backpack but X-rays of her
luggage leave biocurity officers
concerned that she's attempting to bring
some Undeclared food items into the
country there's a lot of organic
material in there and this one here it's
very faint but we still need to look at
it it looks like it's in a pot we need
to have a look definitely look in the
box as well okay where's your
passport passport and as the woman
reaches into her bag something falls out
and officer suspicions are immediately
Justified I know I I can
see as an array of hidden and Undeclared
nuts Tumble from her purse this is your
signature yeah did you fill out the
cards this is is Chinese not English
look Chinese not
English just one
moment I've got a interesting one here
she's can't speak English obviously this
is not English she won't answer the
seven baggage questions where she
go now appears the passenger has done a
run up and officers have an urgent
situation all right she looks like she's
seeking a assistance the woman has found
another chinesee speaking traveler to
translate for her and officer Andrea
clarifies what food items the woman has
to declare what food is she bringing to
the Country Dry fish and other seaf
anything
else despite only listing cigarettes on
her declaration card she now admits to
carrying dried fish dried Seafood
mushrooms and Chinese medicine but
claims the items were packed by her son
all right thank you thank you
sir the lady up front of the X-ray was
clearly declaring one bag only however
it's become apparent that there is
definitely food in the other bags so
let's have a
look officers immediately find a
high-risk fresh vegetable hidden in her
backpack this one no good
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okay as well as the cigarettes she has
declared but when officer Janette turns
her attention to one of the woman's two
cardboard boxes we have some leakage
there's quite a bit of juice coming out
of that box she's shocked to find
something that could pose a major risk
to Australia's
biocurity okay so what do we have
here but I thought you said your son
packed the bag and you didn't know what
you had you saw the do sit when you came
near your bag means it's a positive
reaction to what's in your bag to
narcotics to
drugs do you
understand what's the mean the dog sits
when the dog sits yeah it's a positive
reaction means that he smelt drugs in
your bag M par M
Dr M
drugs what's the J Drugs uh
narcotics you don't know what drug
his story doesn't convince officers as
he denies any knowledge of drugs and
continues to claim that someone else
packed his personal bag ilal do you know
what's inside the bag no no I don't know
you don't
know officers now continue the search
and try to locate whatever it is that
he's trying to hide who are these four
my friend your friend another friend
yeah the rest is all food yeah
all so what is this tea tea yeah
Vietnamese tea and an unusual amount of
Vietnamese moon cakes are packed in the
suitcase moon cakes are a traditional
pastry eaten during the Harvest
celebration normally The Filling appears
dark in color but what's now found
inside these cakes is white and appears
suspicious to
officers there something in it
I you've said I'm just finished work I'm
just going to ask have you been engaging
in any work during that
time I may have engaged in a bit of work
bit of extra work but you're starting to
hint at something else another
Arrangement and yeah okay yeah tell me
what type of work it is that you've
you've engaged in I just done a week's
work labor and
yeah what was the arrangement where did
you work so okay what happened was I
guess I'm telling
you H we probably spend a little bit
more than we were meant in so I just
said oh look I might as well just do a
week if like eight days or something I
think I'll get
up what did you get in exchange for this
work
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money work on your Visa cons shes a
bridge of
condition no no May the story definitely
does not add up she did say her son
packed her bags however when we opened
that box she was able to identify that
vegetable before we even opened it um
which indicates to me she had a very
strong awareness of what was in that box
what appears to be leaking is a
non-commercially prepared
vegetable this leak vegetable is a
prohibited import which could contain
unidentified pests and diseases with the
potential to cause enormous damage to
Australian agricultural
Industries okay let's have a look what
else more Su have a look at this Andrea
that does look like some type of disease
doesn't it so this is not something that
she'll be taking with her today further
investigation reveals a steady stream of
UND declared and prohibited food items
wow okay so we got more of the same just
just
just and now in the same pot as the
leaking vegetables officers find
something of even greater concern inside
this pot that was actually leaking with
the vegetables we've got concealed
cigarettes I believe that was made to
look like foods and packaged in this way
to conceal
the woman declared five packets but
officers Now find a large quantity of
concealed cigarettes which she has
disguised as food and they suspect
there's more to be found there you go
yeah well we knew we knew there was more
with the realization that she's been
caught out the Woman's Health seems to
take a sudden turn for the
worse oh I think she's going to be
sick I don't understand your man watch
that one she keeps
beling are you
sick you want to sit down she's going to
be sick I'm just a bit worried about her
cuz she doesn't seem to be doing too
well she keeps belching and um yeah her
eyes look watery so I think the whole of
today has made maybe made her a bit
upset or just her sort of knowing that
she's done something that she shouldn't
have done maybe her conscience fing up
on her I can't really answer that
and she won't be feeling better anytime
soon if she finds herself with a hefty
fine or possible
prosecution she's a perfect example of
why we have um infringement notices um
issued she could possibly get a criminal
record now is there any evidence that we
may find that will suggest that you've
returned to engage in further work this
one is 100%
tourism let me just spend all the money
as a country and let me go
[Laughter]
Go Passenger is given a chance to
explain his intentions but he thinks the
best way to plead his case is by being
cocky let me in
please I give you a call when I
live his confident attitude might
usually get him out of trouble but he's
in for a rude shock when he hears
officer Tim's final
decision after weighing up all the
information available to me I was
satisfied that the grounds for canceling
your Visa outweigh the reasons for not
cancelling Therefore your Visa has been
cancelled and you will be refused
immigration clearance you will be
detained and removed from Australia as
an unlawful
non-citizen
okay I know he's made this decision
about that but I just think it's it's
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there's something in
it I think
they the man is now detained while the
concealment is
identified I believe the cakes are
you're carrying have narcotics in them
we're going to do some further testing
to make sure but because I believe that
I'm going to caution you you don't have
to to say or do anything but anything
you do or do do or say may be used as
evidence do you understand that don't
don't do and don't say here yeah you
don't have to
okay a drug swap is now run over the
moon cakes this test will indicate if
officers suspicions are
Justified what she' actually declared
was about five single packets of
cigarettes however what we've discovered
is excess cigarettes concealed to look
like food items she has given the option
via a translator to keep the cigarettes
but she will need to pay the duty owing
or they will be seized and
destroyed so she decide
now cigarettes gone the woman may still
be fined for all the Undeclared food but
it's not without protest she saying that
she had no money she can't pay well we
can issue a remittance notice which
means she gets 21 days to pay however in
order to send the woman a remittance
notice officers need to confirm her
address and when they check her ID they
run into a problem who is this person is
that her
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husband friend how come she has a
friend's ID with her driver's license
the woman is found to be carrying
several different ID cards with
conflicting names and addresses so where
does she actually
live what we've discovered is she has
multiple identities and multiple um uh
pieces of information about where she
resides because of this new complication
bio security officers now hand the woman
over to the Australian Border Force who
will investigate further
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I have every reason to suspect this
gentleman is carrying drugs in these
food items it's not cake it's drugs
officers will now step up their
investigation we're going to go into an
interview room
I'm going to ask you um a couple of
questions okay um I'll get you to grab
your things now the man is taken to a
private interview room and officers
conduct secondary tests to confirm the
swab
results Okay so we've got a green result
which means it's a positive to pseudo
dream the concealed drugs will now be
packaged up for evidence and the
passenger is arrested by the Australian
Border Force investigations team
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today in Sydney this passenger has come
to the attention of officers as they
have noticed him lurking behind the
primary line the man is acting very
strangely and appears to be trying to
avoid showing himself for
identification our officers noticed he
was acting a little bit nervous when he
arrived into the entry control point he
didn't proceed straight up to a customs
officer with his passport he sort of
hung around the back of the hall he
appeared to be
stalling after finally presenting
himself to offices it is established
that he is a Malaysian Citizen and has
flown in from Dubai on a tourist visa he
claims to be here on a short 5-day
holiday
however officers suspect that he's not
telling them the truth and decide to
take him aside for further
questioning we questioned him a little
bit further about what his plans were
what he wanted to see what he wanted to
do he could not really tell us much
about Sydney apart from he just wanted
to walk around and have a look so again
that's um raised the officer's concerns
about him being a genuine traveler to
Australia during the interview officers
perform a baggage inspection and this
causes f further concern about his
reason for travel basically he's come
with no clothing he's got 4 and2 K of
chocolate and alcohol it is quite
unusual for a holiday maker to bring
such a large amount of chocolates
considering he doesn't know anybody in
Australia he's got no contacts here so
he's not bringing any gifts for any
friends or family that he knows to
what's more worrying is the foul odor
wafting from the man's direction from
the moment we spoke to him we could
smell that something wasn't right it
looks like he was a little bit
frightened we've noted that there is a
particular smell which is consistent
with feal
matter border Force officers are
interviewing this French traveler who
has just landed they are concerned she
may have plans to work which would be a
breach of the conditions of her tourist
visa okay how long are you planning to
stay in Australia I don't know really
the time so you're not aware of how long
you wish to stay in Australia depend of
my budget and so tell me a little bit
about what you're here for do you have
any intended activities whilst you're in
Australia I really want to improve my
English so just spend time with English
people or Travelers and speak English
again and again and again have you been
in any contact with anybody in
Australia when
prior to coming to Australia have you
been in touch with anybody
no okay so nobody knows that you are
coming to
Australia no do you know anybody in
Australia no the woman is acting koi
about having contacts in Australia so
officers check her phone for information
and suspicions are immediately raised by
what they find what my main concern is
is that she's denying that she's got any
that's here to meet her nor is she
planning to see anybody while she's in
the country right now that contrasts
with some of the text messages that were
found on her mobile phone which I'm
still yet to put to her but to me it it
appears that she's been quite hesitant
to disclose what her true intentions are
for what what she's here to do while
she's in the
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country bio security officers suspect
that this couple traveling with their
two young children have items in one of
their bags that should have been
declared yep there's nothing to declare
it on their card however they have um a
whole bag of organic material so we'll
have a look in there officer Brian now
gives them a final opportunity to
declare any
food yeah did you both understand the
questions oh yeah the couple insist that
they have completed their card correctly
and make no declaration all right I'm
going to have a look in the bag it
doesn't take long to find the Undeclared
food but what's living inside the fruit
now raises the concern for biocurity
officers okay what we've got is we've
got some peaches nectarines this one
here there's a hole in the side and
something's been eating it this is a
serious issue because there could be a
caterpillar or an insect in there eating
it and we just don't know from looking
at it obviously the couple are unaware
that infested fruit carries pests and
diseases which are a dangerous threat to
Australia's agricultural industry sorry
I don't know do you have anything else
no did anybody else put put anything in
this bag sorry I don't know you don't
know but officer Brian now finds
something which will prove that they did
know all along okay what's
this sorry I don't know this family they
had another card that was in their
language they could read it they could
understand it and yet they filled out
the Declaration in English so it just
doesn't add up this tells
me that you
knew what that said oh yeah yeah
yeah yeah you can't just change your
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mind the source of the foul stench is
yet to be identified and officers have
the unpleasant task of determining what
the man is hiding and where they start
by taking a closer look at the items in
his
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possession
dink quite a strong
smell and the nasty situation becomes
increasingly serious for the passenger
as mixed in with his chocolate box are a
number of large yellow pellets
experienced officers recognize these
pellets as similar to those used by drug
criers to carry narcotics
internally it looks like the pellets
that people usually swallow even though
they're relatively large people have
been known to
swallow 90 up to 90 sometimes so now
that we've got we know what's in this
we'll close this one up put it aside
we'll get the other ones out one by one
further inspection reveals that all four
of the chocolate tins contain the the
same yellow pellets and it doesn't end
there as officers now open a package
that the passenger claims is duty free
alcohol there is a box of Johnny Walker
full of
pellets it's possible that he had them
all inside of him solely because of the
smell so that's why we thought that he
soiled himself it was what was in the
boxes that we were
smelling officers confront the man with
the Discover y the passenger still made
no omissions as to what could be
contained inside the pellet and he's not
offering us a lot of information at this
stage with the passenger claiming to
have no knowledge of the items found
officers will now carry out testing on
the contents of the palets and if they
find illicit substance this man's life
will take a serious turn for the worse
and I want to know why considering they
had the card in their language
did they then give me the wrong answer
in English um cuz she said the kids
forgot to take out the
peach a surprising backflip in their
explanation and the couple now blame
their children for the hidden peaches
all of a sudden it's oh no it was the
kids the kids didn't um get rid of it
for us the kids are minors once they're
over the age of 18 then they can be held
responsible until then it's the parents
responsibility sorry I don't
know the couple refus to take
responsibility for the false declaration
but their passports reveal they've been
to Australia many times before that just
tells me you have no
excuse you should know better I'm
getting the feeling from them they've
been through here before they're looking
for a quick way through and so they've
simply tick no to everything and now
that they've been caught out now they're
blaming it on the
kids said it's okay to hurry up cuz
she's in a hurry to catch the flight
yeah but it'll take time because I've
got to print the document we have to go
make the payment it doesn't happen
instantly explain it to a couple are now
upset but fail to realize that they've
caused their own delay by failing to
declare if they want to get through here
quickly they need to abide by the law
and despite the kids being very young
the mother insists on blaming
them so can I ask you do you be looking
at any jobs here in Australia no cuz I
know I come with my tourist
visa this is an email emails that were
found on your mobile phone and the
information on it clearly depicts that
you may be here for other reasons other
than tourism purposes yeah have you made
contact with anybody about intended
activities whilst you're in
Australia yeah maybe uh doing some
Ming the unusual term woofing refers to
willing workers on Organic Farms which
is a specific type of volunteer work
that is allowed on a tourist visa so who
is this person that you've been em
smiling Elizabeth Elizabeth to be a
valid woofer Travelers must agree to do
4 to 6 hours of gardening or farming
work in exchange for a day's food and
accommodation what's your understanding
of
woofing to spend time with family uh and
get free accommodation and free food but
for that you need to work for them okay
and what type of work would you be doing
for them maybe
take care of M okay cuz what my concern
is is that the activities that are
listed on on these emails are not
necessarily activities which would
constitute woing in Australia go bike
riding walk the dog or walk on beach
skateboarding play games these types of
activities are indicative of what
someone who is doing Nanny or opair work
would be doing yeah are you aware of
that
yeah so will you receive accommodation
in return accomodation yeah are you also
food
like okay I'm just going to step out and
have a chat to my colleagues and I'll be
back with you it is possible that this
French nanny has misunderstood the rules
regarding work while traveling on a
tourist
visa I think Seline may have the wrong
interpretation of what wolfing is a lot
of people think wolfing is just working
for free but they don't understand that
it needs to be on a particular farm that
meets the requirements of wolfing our
fear is she is intending to come out to
Australia not to be a wolfer learning
the operations of a organic farm but to
work which is in breach of her visa
condition Seline is now given the
opportunity to plead her case and
convince offices that she should be
allowed to enter the country is there
anything you'd like to say anything
you'd like to provide any reasons yeah
if you still trust in me I will
be uh ready to forget this plan to doing
opare and just staying in woing place
like it's the main thing for me to speak
English very well when I leave that's
why uh I was planned to doing
that so uh Wella I understood that op
it's not
it didn't work with my Visa it's obvious
that Seline hasn't done her homework
before visiting Australia and she's not
here to Wolf so Officer Phil must now
decide if she can cross the border as a
genuine
tourist okay after weighing up all the
information available to me um and in
consideration with your response um I
was satisfied that there are grounds for
canceling your Visa that means that your
Visa Visa um has been cancelled today as
your Visa has been cancelled okay um you
have been refused immigration clearance
into
Australia okay now this also means that
you may be detained and removed from
Australia as an unlawful non-citizen
under Section 189 of the migration act
1958 I have to leave it yeah okay which
means that we will need to make the
arrangements for you to um travel to a
destination where you will be permitted
entry it was quite clear she had an
intention to arrive in Australia to
conduct opair or also known as Nanny
work and it takes away potential
employment opportunities to those who
are actually entitled to
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it the final color will be pink and blue
if it's cocaine
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both of the technologies that we've used
so far have come up positive for cocaine
officers know that this type of pallet
is usually carried internally by drug
smugglers which may explain the vile
smell coming from the chocolate
boxes he's possibly gotten them out of
his body sooner than he was intending to
they've definitely been inside of
somebody from the smell we can tell that
and officers now want to know whether
all the pallets are accounted for we've
got some concerns that he still may have
some inside his body so what we're going
to do today we're going to take him for
a non-medical internal body scan he's
not in a good place he knows that he's
in a lot of trouble and now he's just
going to have to um find out exactly how
much trouble he is in the test will not
only determine if he is hiding more
pellets but could also save his life if
one of those pet words to burst it could
possibly kill him from a drug overdose
that's her
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responsibility she just wanted to be
quickly done it would have been a lot
quicker for her to Simply say she had
fruit she'd have been out the door we
wouldn't be having this conversation it
would have been destroyed I wouldn't
have to go and write up a document yeah
I know I'm trying to explain it no
explain it to her the beaches are now
confiscated and will be destroyed the
couple receive a $360 fine for failing
to
declare okay we have to go down to make
the
payment and once the fine is paid they
can continue on with their
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travel we sent the gentleman in for a
non-medical body scan which looks for
anything that may be inside of his body
it basically takes a photograph of
inside um or an x-ray of inside of a
person's
abdomen we've received the results back
and we had a negative result while clear
of having any more pellets inside of him
the man is now handed over to the
Australian federal police for further
investigation into the large quantity of
drugs he has brought into the
country today was a very successful day
for strali Border force uh We've impeded
the importation of approximately 4.8
kilos of cocaine into uh into Sydney
Airport
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he's become very nervous he's sweating
he's unable to construct sentences he's
unable to give his answers to the
questions he appears very very nervous
do you like some more water yeah his
story is that he went to visit his
father and his mother passed away back
in October but other than that he has no
story about what he did over in Thailand
and for a traveler returning from such a
short trip his cases are extremely heavy
about $800 Australian dollar yeah an
excess
baggage so officers begin a full baggage
search to see if they can determine the
reason for his
anxiety and of immediate concern to
officer Alicia is the fact is that his
luggage seems to contain no personal
effects but does contain a very unus
usual supply of pharmaceuticals
including a large quantity of
Botox so who are they call for the
Doctor Who so
doctor D and he's asked you to get them
for you yeah how many did he ask you to
bring um
25 okay so Dr D asked you to go to
Thailand and get 25 boxes of these to
bring to him yeah to stock his Shelf um
usually he he ordered the stuff it's
right now you know so he told me going
there don't mind to Pi it up for him
anyway passengers can only carry
Pharmaceuticals for personal use if they
have a prescription and officer Alicia
reminds the passenger that large
commercial quantities are prohib you
already know that don't you it's a
prohibited prohibited yeah yeah so I
can't H you any I can't have it back
anywhere you know that sorry you knew
that anyway just hoping you got through
with it officers are surprised by such a
Brazen attempt to smuggle the goods and
need to know exactly what this man is up
to today we've got pretty much a
pharmacy in this gentleman's bags you
name it this passenger is carrying
it today in Sydney bioc security officer
Stephanie has some concerns over what
might be inside the luggage belonging to
this woman arriving from Vietnam
definitely worth having a look in two of
her bags just see the um the grainy
material here it just needs a closer
look did you read the questions on this
card yes did you understand the question
yeah all right we'll have a quick
look we have
pepper so just pepper y so you have
white pepper white pepper like pepper
while pepper is allowed certain food
items must be declared so any potential
risks can be assessed by biocurity
officers okay the dates they still have
the seed inside so these ones are not
permitted many types of foreign seeds
can be devastating to Australia's
agricultural industry and require a
permit or cannot be brought into the
country so that's fruit all right I
think it's dry one not but that doesn't
ask if it's dry okay so this one's not
allowed yep while some of the Undeclared
items can be brought in what's found
next could pose a massive threat to
Australia's bio security I'm going to
interrupt you for a moment can you have
a look in here border force is
interviewing this Brazilian woman who
has been studying in Australia on a
student visa and recently left the
country for a one month holiday and so
you've just returned from Thailand today
yes okay so you were supposed to go back
to school last week yeah so when were
you planning on attending school uh just
next Friday okay officers are concerned
that she may have breached the
conditions of her student visa whilst
studying Patisserie at a culinary school
how many days a week do you attendo two
days a week and so what actual classes
are you taking at the moment do you know
the names of them um I'm not sure
because every week new students arrive
so they change it's a bit different way
to
okay it's odd that she doesn't know
which subject she's doing so border
Force have now contacted the school to
shed some light on her academic record
the school
actually reported that you had
unsatisfactory course progress have you
been going to all the class or have you
been missing any oh well I'm not the
best student but like yeah I've been
going almost every week so okay so you
can't understand why they would would
say there's unsatisfactory course
progress no it doesn't make sense you
haven't failed any subjects well they
don't have really subjects they are um
assessments but they don't have dates
for the assessments so if I don't do it
I don't have my certificate oh
okay unsatisfactory course progress is
considered a breach of the conditions of
a student visa so officers have searched
the woman's phone for other
incriminating evidence okay hi so you
went through the phone did you find any
message that suggested that she was
going to school like I can't talk now I
got to go to
school okay do you know who she sent
those messages to by any
chance if information is found to show
that she's not attending it could lead
to the cancellation of her visa my
colleagues told me there's some messages
inant mail saying I don't have to go to
school anymore saying I spoke to my
teacher at school today and I can cancel
my course whenever I want so then I
would be then it would be up to you if
you want me to working full-time
straight away or in the future she's
supposed to be here to be studying
that's the actual purpose of the Visa
that doesn't look good for her if she's
saying that she can cancel her course at
any time when as a student you always
have to hold
enrollment a lot of
money and these were how much are you
selling them to the doctor
um50 just 150 a box how much did you pay
for that the sa price anyway you're not
making any money
you're a very generous person generous
yeah because um this is my friend you
know sometime
I Dr D is your friend as well as the
botox border Force have now Unearthed a
treasure Trove of other prohibited
Pharmaceuticals including Viagra and
estrogen for the gy and estrogen the
team the gym the gym oh
sorry sell them for um 100 bucks he
admits to selling the Pharmaceuticals
but officer Alicia suspects he's not
entirely truthful about their uses did
you tell me they were four oh it's just
a fat burner fat burner yeah steroid AKA
steroid no it's not steroid not
steroid no it just help for n anyway and
just lose some fun anyway so how much do
you sell them for $100
$100 a bottle a
bottle are you sure everything seems to
be 100 100 50 that's a lot of trouble
yeah but the thing is $150 you assume me
to sell just like per tablet but I don't
sell per tablets
anyway while the huge Hall of prohibited
Pharmacy drugs already has this man in
trouble it's what officers find next
that could be of far greater concern you
bring 40 OD lers yeah that's for the
cleaning company anyway there bizarre
claim that he's carrying an unusually
large number of M mouthwash bottles for
a cleaning company leaves officers with
some serious questions that need to be
answered the passenger sted that he's
mixed cleaning solution with the
Listerine which is very strange to us
there's a bit of confusion as to how
often she's been attending school any
assessments that she might have been
doing she can't really tell me the
subjects so I guess that's what we're
really looking at today has she actually
been attending school and if she hasn't
been what has she been doing a message
found on her phone indicates she's
planning to quit school so officer
Belinda must now clear up the
confusion I'm going to have to call the
school and see if what you're telling me
is the same as what they're saying
because they only put this on here on
the 24th so only 3 days ago saying it's
unsatisfactory course
progress okay so interview is suspended
at 11: 11
a.m. if the school confirms that she's
failing to complete her studies she will
no longer hold enrollment and her visa
may be cancelled I actually just have
some questions about one of your
students you reported this person
Patricia for unsatisfactory course
progress she's disputing that stating
that she's actually been going to
school
okay the young Brazilian might think she
can just turn up to class to keep her
student visa but in order to comply she
must complete the
coursework okay well you've been more
than helpful thank you very much
much okay thanks
bye so they're saying that she has been
attending but she hasn't been doing any
of the assessments so that's why they've
reported her for unsatisfactory cause
progress it's not looking good for her
right now you can't just keep going to
school without actually doing any of the
assignments can you have a look in
here lus no stop they don't squash them
they're animals in your bag live animal
oh no
okay it's a real concern we don't know
what the insect is it could pose a huge
biocurity risk to Australia so I take a
sample of the insect and send that off
for testing all right so your bag I'm
going to seal M until we get word from
entomology for that normally if a bag
has a infestation of animals or insects
the bag's quarantined it needs to be
treated and then released back to the
passenger with the infested bags safely
quarantined there is still an
outstanding issue as for the food that
wasn't
declared you can throw it away no it's
not about throwing it away it's about
whether you get a warning you get a
fine you bring 40 OD lers of yeah that's
called The Cleaning company anyway the
passenger has a lot of Listerine bottles
that have been opened and resealed
they're different shades different
colors you stated that he's mixed some
cleaning solution with the Listerine
which is very strange to us how much was
that worth to you I just give it to you
know a friend that's all and then he
just pay me
$50 Bott you that's all anyway he says
he's carrying the mouthwash bottles
which are mixed with cleaning fluid as a
favor for a friend but nothing the man
says is adding up I know I wouldn't pay
$800 in excess
baggage if I've got nothing
yeah but my friend he covered for me I
don't have to pay anything anyway your
friend covered for you which friend uh
the the guy who actually asked back yeah
who's that uh Zach what's his name huh
what's his name Zach Zach have a last
name no I don't know his last name
what's he in your phone under under um z
z under
Zach you can show me but you can't
what's the name under in your messages
go okay you just can't hold it cuz you
might delete things that's why so there
is no contact named Zach listed in the
phone and it's a dead giveaway that he
hasn't got his story
straight okay now I know you're lying
cuz you're really really not good at
it officers will now have to run a drug
swab over the suspect bottles and if
it's positive officers might have
intercepted a record seizure
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I can find the passenger for the non-
declared food items that she presented
today I can also take the option of
giving her a written
warning this is the only one that's not
permitted so today I'm going to give you
a warning for not declaring so we're
just going to holdun your bag until we
find out what we're dealing with but if
that is bios security concern then your
bag will need treatment it will cost you
$100 otherwise it'll be about a week and
then you can come back and pick up your
luggage okay so that's yours you're
right to go I'm ready to
exit this is a great result we may have
just stopped a huge pest coming into
Australia
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so I spoke to the school and they stated
that although you have been attending
your practical sometimes you haven't
done any assessments except for one at
the very beginning of the course I did
more I did like four or five while she
continues to disagree with the school's
report some new information has now come
to light and it could change her outcome
you have a boyfriend here in Australia
yes and what's his name Damian okay and
how long have you been together uh 10
months
11 do you live live together yes does he
support you yeah like his is his home
house okay so what I'll do now is I'll
go out and call your boyfriend and let
him know you're here and I'll come back
in here okay
okay significant relationships are one
of the factors that border Force must
consider when contemplating the
cancellation of a
Visa hi is this
Damen hi my name's Belinda I'm calling
from uh immigration here at Melbourne
airp what how you
going are you waiting for somebody
today okay and what's your relationship
with
Patricia the gravity of the situation
has just hit Patricia and she's now
worried about what the Visa cancellation
would mean for her relationship I'm
nervous that maybe they cancel and then
I can't see him anymore we met
uh October last year and then we lived
together since we met so it was Ling for
S like it means a lot to me but I don't
know let's see what
happens her partner Daman he's an
Australian Citizen and I spoke to him
and confirmed that and checked on our
records and so we will take that into
consideration and any disadvantages that
might arise if we cancel her visa today
we have a life together we have plans
together and if I have to live now we
probably won't be together anymore
the boyfriend yeah we we can take that
into account in the decision but I don't
think that's going to be enough to sway
the decision in her favor after
considering all of the circumstances a
decision has now been made after
weighing up all of the information
available to me I was satisfied that the
grounds for canceling your Visa
outweighed the reasons for not canceling
your Visa has been cancelled as your
Visa has been cancelled you're being
refused immigration clearance I'm
detaining you under Section 9 of the
migration act 1958 and you'll be removed
from Australia as an unlawful
non-citizen can can this see my
boyfriend uh he can visit you at the
Detention Center
yes are you able to sign this to say
that I've provided you with this
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information okay so you understand
what's
happened
well okay did you want to call your
boyfriend okay and officers sometimes
encounter difficult emotional
circumstances but ultimately the
decisions that they make must be guided
by Australian immigration law when you
look at legislation it states you must
hold enrollment she doesn't hold
enrollment really the bottom line so we
really had no choice but to go ahead and
cancel the Visa I can't believe they
doing this to me I can't believe it it's
just like no
no I can see why she's upset she thought
she'd just be walking out the door and
see her boyfriend outside and he just
thought she was running late so yeah it
is
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hard the next test we'll do is first
offender test which is a much more
accurate test for the substance officers
submit a sample of the liquid for
secondary
testing the testing confirms that the
bottles contain the deadly narcotic GBL
which is also used as a date rape drug
the passengers admitted to having GBL
and 62 L of it which is quite an amount
the GBL has been concealed in bottles of
Listerine and chemical bottles at the
moment he States it's a cleaning product
which from my limited understanding of
GBL can be used as a cleaning product
however it's also used in more Sinister
ways whilst GBL can be used as a
cleaning product it has a much darker
side known as coma in a bottle it is
easier to overdose on than heroin and
can cause psychosis memory loss and
death so from here we'll hand this to
the Australian federal police to
complete the inquiries and finalize the
matter
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we got four young passengers coming in
today three of them uh Canadian
passports and one of them has a Dutch
pass all traveling from Canada I need
you girls to come around this way and
your bags they have come to the office's
attention due to a few very unusual
details that were noticed when they
passed through the primary line to get
their visas and passports checked one of
the first things I notied they're here
for 10 days but passenger has got two
huge suitcases that straight away is a
little bit unusual they're only 10 days
why do you need that much
luggage the four young Travelers are now
being questioned at separate benches so
officers can cross check their stories
okay just need to ask you a quick couple
of questions in regards to G card and
your baggage the passengers are telling
us that they're friends but when you
really get down to questioning them they
don't really know each other that well
there's some sort of links they know of
someone they met someone 3 months ago so
that sounds a little bit unusual so
you're saying that you at 6 months you
plan this 6 months ago well we had
talked about it 6 months ago and you
just met your friend 6 months ago yeah
she cuz tyrella straight
girl normally people get a little bit
nervous and she's quite talkative um
telling us how much she loves Australia
why she wants to come out here but can't
give us too much detail about what she's
going to do here and your parents how do
they feel about you coming out um they
didn't want me missing school but I'm
only taking two classes so it's not like
really that big of a deal but they were
excited because this is like a trip of a
life and you're planning on doing some
homework here oh
yeah a is now taken to test for traces
of any illicit
substances have you been in contact with
anything recently do you use any
recreational drugs you don't the test is
negative but a shocking development has
occurred when a bad belonging to one of
the male travelers is x-rayed and and
Cates that there could be a massive
concealment this family returning from
Vietnam claimed their boxes are filled
with baby clothes but an ex image of the
contents has biocurity officers
concerned over what's actually inside
they've got a lot of boxes and so far
three of the boxes have come through
full of material that we really need to
have a better look at at know what's in
them very dense around here it could be
anything so I just want to take a closer
look okay hi just want to check yes did
you read the questions on this card yes
yes because it's in
Vietnamese the passengers confirmed that
they have read the cards and that they
have nothing to declare so officers will
now further examine luggage we'll have a
look okay what's this one
shrimp
shrimp I asked you before what was in
your bags and you told me you told me
clothes for your new baby shrimp or
prawn prawn can contain bacteria like
deadly salmonella and eoli which pose a
threat to human health and importation
is strictly
controlled Okay this not dry this not
dry shrimp is it cooked did it cook cook
but not
dry this one not
permitted shrimp need to be
dry if they're cooked we need to have a
manufacturer's declaration stating you
know how long they've been cooked make
sure there's no meat uh or all the meats
coagulated and there's no risk to
Australia and the Soggy shrimp is not
the only Undeclared item that could
contain dangerous pests and diseases
this one too
fresh if it was discarded in any of
rural areas it could pose a big risk to
farming industry yeah that's just
definitely
fresh and it doesn't end there officers
Now find one of the biggest threats to
our biocurity hidden amongst the baby
clothing oh this Filipino man has just
arrived in Adelaide and says his trip is
for tourism but officers suspect
otherwise can you tell me what your
plans are for your travel to Australia
just come for my holiday visiting
friends he claims that one of those
friends is waiting for him in the
arrivals Hall but he's having trouble
remembering some very basic details
what's your friend's name that's picking
you
up raldo Ronaldo Ronaldo something
Australian Border Force officers have
established that on a previous trip to
Australia the man extended his holiday
to a period of 12 months in 12 months
last time you spent a week in cans two
weeks in Adelaide mhm what else did you
do in 12 months just relax with with my
friends okay did you do any work in
Australia no no no working whilst on a
tourist visa is a breach of conditions
and despite claiming that he didn't work
officers have now found paperwork in his
bag that suggests he did he said is this
is to certify that Alex is an employee
and presently holding regular
appointment since October of work
certificate is dated from his last trip
and has been signed by the same friend
that is waiting for him today using an
interpreter officer Amanda now asks the
passenger to explain you know he just
made me that certificate but I did not
work yes so why would his friend do a
certific of employment if he didn't work
there why I should
War that's what I'm trying to work
out okay so you're here
for a week and then you're going to
Sydney yeah how you going to Sydney
we're fying so where about did you guys
stay in Thailand uh we stayed at the
Majestic brand Hotel did you do you know
anyone in Thailand did you meet up with
anyone no it's hard to tell if the story
is legitimate but an x-ray of one of the
men's bags may give the answer officers
are looking for so we just ran D
passengers uh bag through the X-ray it
looks like we might have something here
cuz all the orange sort of matter here
orange means organic material it's bit
unusual that all this organic material
is in the bottom of the suitcase a quick
inspection under the lining is another
strong indication of a
concealment you can say just bag this
has kind of been put in and just like a
manufactur tape over the top of it just
to hold it together because the
indicators are so strong that there is a
concealment in the bag officer Craig has
another concern all four passengers have
presented with similar shaped large
suitcases they've gone on the same
ticketing I'm concerned that they're all
carrying narcotics today so I want the
guys to go and issue them a caution and
make sure all the passions understand
their rights you may communicate with or
attempt to communicate with a legal
practitioner do you understand that yeah
do you wish to do so no the bag is taken
to the tool room and the base will now
be
drilled what's discovered may be just
the beginning of this major
[Applause]
investigation there's pay slips and a
letter mhm so I don't don't understand
why he would issue you this if you
didn't work
there he just showed me what the B is
like and what the certificate of
employment is like but I did not work
with him the documents are signed by the
man's friend who is currently outside
waiting for him so officer Amanda now
checks with him directly he said that
you worked for him last time you were
here in Australia in this m Pala and
you're telling me you didn't work so
that's I need you to explain that just
just for the experience only I go to his
clinic and doing just for fun massage
like that but there's pelet and a letter
this is yours I found it in your folder
okay I don't understand concerned that
the man is lying about his work officer
Amanda now checks if he will tell the
truth about how he knows his Australian
contact I saw this this this this man in
the MOs so this person here you met at
the
mosque okay there's a little bit of
difference again because he tells me
he's your cousin mhm yes before you
sounded like you didn't know him you
said you met him at the Moss it's
difficult to put the facts together as
the man keeps changing his story but
it's becoming clear that he's lying and
his waiting friend is actually his
employer I'm very confused about your
friendship or your whe or your
relationship with this
person this one this not permitted no
I've got bird's nest bird's nest is a
rare Asian delicacy which sells for
thousands of dollars per kilo but also
presents a high risk of carrying disease
such as Avian Influenza bird's nest is a
um restricted item they cannot have it
it's regurgitated from a bird
it's um you don't know what the risk is
in there and what is even more
concerning to officers is the method of
concealment the birds nness has been
repackaged in a packet that shows that
it's rice inside makes me think they're
trying to hide this item definitely not
allowed very high risk item the family
is not happy about losing their
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Delicacies I wouldn't be arguing first
of all you didn't declare it on the card
okay but they're fa to declare the
prawns and bird's nest means they may
now be facing a substantial fine you may
communicate with or attempt to
communicate with a legal practitioner do
you understand that yeah do you wish to
do so
NOS come up positive for heroin lsy and
opium between the group they have eight
bags but this could be just a ploy to
hide one loaded bag amongst them all As
It Seems far too Brazen for anyone to
bring in so many large suitcases with
concealments but the bags will all be
checked to make
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sure and the X-ray shows up virtually a
mirror image to the previous bag which
has returned a positive result for
heroin it's just very similar to the
other this is a really straight
Square it looks pretty positive now with
yet another bag showing the same image
it means that so far three of the four
people look to have attempted to smuggle
something across the border but with
another five bags between the whole
group still to be checked officer Craig
has a very bad feeling it's possible now
we're looking at multiple concealments
here I wouldn't be arguing first of all
you didn't declare it on the card okay
that's what I'm telling you so today
here your you'll be paying
$360 you see here you had three chances
1 2 3 yes at least one card should have
had a yes on it for food if you are not
sure you say yes so today $360 fine
they've now been given a fine but the
woman still wants to keep her raw prawns
can you just leave the products
there okay so we go to the desk there to
pay the money
it's an expensive lesson as the family
must now pay the fine and the high-risk
Goods will be
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destroyed how much money do you have
available while you're in
Australia
$300 I have $300 yes okay that $300
doesn't appear to be sufficient money to
support yourself for 3 months who will
you be staying with with the friend who
invited me here okay what was your
friend's name
uh Donald Donald Donald can you explain
your friendship with Donald what he
promise to me he is the one responsible
for everything okay yes all right
sometimes I get daily expenses from him
yeah why why does Donald give you daily
money no for for my expenses for my
expens okay
yes officers will now phone Donald to
check if if he's prepared to offer
financial support and if he isn't this
passenger might be returning home sooner
than he
planned they've all got two each and
everyone looks the same like this it's
like a normal base of a suitcase but
it's
thick and if you look closer it's like
they put a mold down and then put a felt
lining around the outside to make it
look normal but the bags are heavy and
these are
thick it's going to be big con
a bag from each person is drilled and
the white powder which is extracted is
examined using a narcotic test kit and
it's gone from a green to a dark blue
which would indicate that uh
presumptively the substance in the
suitcase would appear to be
heroin despite the large concealments
found in their baggage all of the young
passengers are managing to remain very
calm given the circumstances
she's pretending like she doesn't know
what's going on it appears that she's
trying to be I don't know what's
happened I don't know why we're here I
don't know what's going on while the
bags continue to be inspected an
eagle-eyed officer has noticed a small
clue see the number okay it's probably
like a two yep we discovered that bags
appear to be numbered it may indicate
that there may be a series or a number
of bags associated with this possible
importation and it leads to the sudden
realization that there could be a major
problem if all these bags are from the
one Syndicate have we got the mall if I
got number 10 and I've only got eight
bags here am I missing a couple of bags
somewhere he said he will support you
for one month but you have a ticket for
3 months how will you support yourself
on
$300 having worked unlawfully in
Australia previously and with no means
to support himself this time it's highly
likely that he'll once again breach his
Visa conditions officer Amanda now has
all the evidence she needs so I have
decided to cancel your Visa
today okay as your Visa has been
cancelled you will be refused
immigration clearance and you will be
detained and removed from Australia as
an unlawful noncitizen under Section 189
of the migration Act
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58 cuz if we're missing numbers we could
be missing bags all course and they need
to make sure that there are no other
people involved in this massive attempt
to smuggle heroin across the border did
you take this as a seven yeah seven say
seven should be eight yeah to each packs
four packs there is also the enormous t
task to drill and test every bag plus
meticulously document all the details of
this huge crime this will help with the
pending criminal prosecution and also
assist any further investigation into
who the ring leader is and possibly link
the group to a bigger International
crime syndicate I think all four
passengers have got two bags each and
all appears to have we're thinking
similar concealments so it's going to be
a large amount it is now confirmed that
the bag numbers are all sequential from
1 to 8 and they have all been drilled
and tested all the presumptive tests
have indicated that there is heroin
concealed within the base of all the
suitcases the Australian federal police
are called and the passengers are
escorted to interview rooms where
statements will be made just
fation every bag is confirmed to contain
heroin so the AFP now takes all four
into custody for further questioning and
to finalize the matter
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it's 4:30 a.m. and an Australian Border
Force compliance team is on their way to
execute a search warrant on a property
located on a citrus Tri outside the town
of Leon because of the variety of citrus
frots that are grown in this particular
region the work is available all year
round and that is a big attraction for
illegal
workers Intel suggests that seven
unlawful noncitizens may be residing on
the farm and the early morning operation
has been planned to catch the unaware
occupants get
out everyone in position
please everyone in
position officers need to act swiftly in
order to prevent anyone from
escaping immigration search
warrant immigration open the door
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please entry need to be gained as soon
as possible so that any Persons of
Interest can be detained as a shadowy
figure hovers behind the front
door immigration search One open the
door in Brisbane a detector dog is being
run across the luggage of a flight from
Singapore officer Suzanne will recognize
any change in her dog's Behavior as an
indication that he's picked up a
suspicious scent oh
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the owners of the bag of Interest are
taken aside and an x-ray is showing that
it contains a large inconsistency
interested to see what it turns out to
be do either of you speak
English no English at all no
deal all right
okay with the help of a translation
booklet it is confirmed that the couple
are not declaring anything no the p have
acknowledged that it's their luggage
they pack the bags and everything inside
the bags is theirs yeah yes yeah yes
yeah this one but first officer Kerry is
interested in the contents of an
unusually shaped
package what is this what is in
here
sword yep I understand that I think she
made did that look all right in the
X-ray normal officers are satisfied that
it is a ceremonial sword and it's given
the all clear I'm happy with that but
when attention is turned to the couple's
suitcase of concern this one yours what
is dis is no laughing matter holy moly
what is all
this today in Sydney officer Denise has
taken side a family arriving from Samoa
what are you what do you have what are
you declaring today they are carrying a
large cooler box full of food but are
only declaring two items T coconut cre
tar and coconut cream yeah and that's it
yeah lovely all right but offices become
suspicious when an x-ray of the Box
suggests there may be many more food
stuffs that they have failed to mention
right so we're going to need to
once opened the first package contains
cook Tara a food Staple in the Pacific
Islands but officer Denise is unable to
identify what she discovers next and she
immediately calls her
supervisor um that one what's
this I think that's e you think it's
which eel eel yeah
oh I see it's a big it's a big it's an
WRA up yeah that's that's now just have
to be careful with the teeth there they
look very
sharp and that's another one is that a
baby eel oh I'm not sure I think so as
officers continue their search they
discover even more Undeclared food oh
that's octopus octopus has got suckers
but just when they thought they'd seen
the worst of it yet another potentially
high-risk item is
unwrapped what have we got in the
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bottles you tell me what that is
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please Hi how are
you um just one sec excuse me let's get
you to sit down please Anthony jaelle
start searching please from Department
of immigation we have a search warrant
for this property hello hello men are
located throughout the house and
escorted to the loung room I'm detaining
you all under section9 of the migration
act as I have reasonable suspicion that
you are anong citizen but officers now
have concerns that two other men are
unaccounted for two people two people
where are the other people here
last the man indicates that there may be
more people residing in a granny flat at
the rear of the premises
immigration search warrant please open
the door movement within the granny flat
confirms that there is someone
inside guys I'll just get everyone to
knock on the doors and windows for
now immigration open the door imigration
open the
door open the door immigration it's
probably their hope that we will simply
give up and go away but that is not
going to happen church one but the
occupants are refusing to open the door
so a lock expert is brought in doors
open okay fantastic okay Dave door's
open immigration search warrant
immigration search warrant immigration
search warrant we're inside
thees immigration search
warrant look for man holes immigration
search Warr hello sir is he
immigration with what you doing he's
sitting just sitting on the toilet hello
sir need to get up immigration IM and
you let's check this
one this
way this way a please okay ask if who
speaks any English can someone get an
interpreter pleas sir yep
on we'll bring him out here and you guys
continue searching yep sure for the
others okay this way please sir this way
sir this way this
way while he is detained there is still
no sign of the other missing man so the
search is intensified while the rest of
the group is identified and questioned
about their immigration station all
right can you tell me if you have a Visa
do you have a Visa where you okay all
right suddenly outside someone makes a
run for
it stop stop
run there he is stop we got the police
here stop
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F
sure I didn't pack it the man says one
of his traveling companions packed the
box and she is called over to explain
could you please tell me what this is p
in a a skin and like a PO paa is the
traditional name given to edible sea
snails but for biocurity officers it's
not the snails that may pose a
risk what's it in what's the liquid it's
just it's just a sea sea water sea water
okay the meat in the bottles was
seashell meat or clam meat which in
itself is not a risk but unfortunately
it's preserved in sea water and seaw
water requires an import permit because
sea water often contains the ly of other
creatures which can grow up and become
pest okay we do have a little bit of a
problem your eel is okay what you can't
bring in you can't bring this in like
this yeah because it's
seawater it's not the shellfish it's the
seawater yeah that's the problem both
items will be seized and destroyed thank
you very much we can tell them what they
can and can't bring in so next time they
won't bring them
in they're all saying that there's some
sort of dietary sub a swab test of the
tablets indicates that they do not
contain illicit
substances nothing we got like calcium
fish oil I have no idea what this one is
but the passengers aren't off the hook
as this amount of product needs to be
declared is this for you you take yeah
you take oh yeah for you too yeah yeah
wow this is a lot just to make you live
longer look
better oh my
gosh the bag contains nothing else but
Health supplements and due to the
overwhelming amount officers are
beginning to suspect that it may be for
resale and that the couple deliberately
didn't declare it to avoid paying any
possible Duty they're saying it's for
personal use but this much is a lot for
personal use and you can only bring in 3
month supply of personal use
stuff and a clue has been discovered at
the bottom of the bag which could lead
to finding out exactly what is going on
we found a business card in their
luggage the passengers have indicated
that this person's outside um so we're
going to go outside and have a chat to
this person to try and establish what
their Association is with the people and
what the association is with the tablets
attempts will be made to locate the
mystery man outside in the arrivals
terminal while in melber officers have
just begun to search the bags of this
man and they have some major concerns so
I've Got a New Zealand gentleman who's
just arrived from the Philippines from a
short trip so we've had a quick look
through his bags I've done an x-ray and
from the X-ray it looks like there might
be something concealed in the bags we
don't know what it is yet the man's
reason for travel also seems a little
unusual he lives here it lives in Perth
he went to the Philippines for a
business trip he's planning on building
a hotel in Perth and possibly adate as
well officers suspect he may be up to
something illegal and this only
increases when he changes his story so
far the passenger has said that he went
to the Philippines um to look at the
buildings there but he's changed his
story and said he's more after the
service in the Philippines in the hotels
there officer Jared continues to
scrutinize the image and he now has
little doubt that a large amount of
organic material is concealed in the
bag's lining yeah so from the different
angle you can definitely see something
there so we'll go in and test it now and
try and find out what the substance
is stop
stop there he is stop we got the police
here stop no TR see oh he fell fell
Fallen
David I think we've got one yeah copy
that I don't think he's okay he's hurt
himself we don't chase people who are
absconding from premises as you can see
it's it's very very dark out here so
there are a lot of dangers while the
local police take up the search where
did he have gone from extensive
interviews have been completed
determining the immigration status of
the other six Farm
Workers no talking no
talk right now have confirmed that all
six of the people are unlawful
non-citizens and don't they don't hold
visas the men will now be transported to
immigration detention facilities where
they will be processed for immediate
removal from Australia
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in Brisbane Australian Border Force
officers have just located this man
outside in the arrivals area they
believe he is somehow connected to a
Chinese couple who have been stopped
with a suitcase full of Undeclared
tablets yeah our theory is that it's for
him to sell here is that your business
card do you work for this company no
we're not working you don't work for
them
Man reveals that he is the couple's son
and he backs up his parents claims that
their enormous pile of Health
supplements is definitely not for resale
all the personal use you know even you
doesn't matter if it's personal use you
have a $900 limit so something will have
to be paid on that but we are the no you
didn't travel with them so at this stage
if there's no Duty GST on it is just 200
$57 would you pay the
$257 okay if there's Duty on that it may
push it up higher oh you're willing to
pay that yeah because my parent needed
needed stuff okay yeah no
worries the man pays the tax on behalf
of his parents and the family is now
free to
leave it felt rather heavy so Jared uh
x-rayed the bag and it looked like there
was a concealment in the lining of the
bag
the different angle you can definitely
see something there so we'll go in and
test it now and try and find out what
the substance is and English is your
first
language because officers believe there
is something illegal inside the bag the
man has read his rights and will be
taken to a private room would you like a
legal practitioner
present uh yes yes I might as well yep
it's up to you you don't have to it's
totally up to you yeah
I might as well if that's my legal right
okay no so we'll arrange for that all
right so did you understand the rights
provided to you to a certain degree yes
okay what didn't you
understand
uh I mean what's you haven't said
anything okay y I'll explain that to you
so the issue we have is this bag over
here um and possibly the laptop bag
there appear to have something concealed
inside them it's consistent with a
possible narcotic concealment or legal
drug concealment what we're going to do
is we're going to repack all this search
it again under tape um then we'll
conduct some testing uh test it to see
if it is a border control drug or an
illegal narcotic um and then we'll go
from there the man has remained
incredibly calm through the whole
process he's even told officers that
he's worried about missing his next
flight once in the room he's given an
opportunity to contact a lawyer and then
officers can begin testing the bag to
see if there are any traces of
narcotics but the first test of the
bag's lining gives a negative
result doesn't mean there's nothing in
there but yeah nothing at the
moment so at this stage we don't know
what's inside it uh we just think it's a
border control drug so what we'll do is
we'll get into it um cut it open drill
it and then conduct some further testing
to find at what the actual substance is
the first swab test was negative but
after removing the lining of the bag a
section is located wrapped in carbon
paper and layers of plastic a swab is
taken and this test result is what the
officers expected uh this is the end
result of the uh Nick test we've put a
small sample of the uh substance in the
bottom of this and as you can see by the
the color green means heroin which is
what here and that's that's as green as
you're going to get that was instantly
went green so it's uh it's definitely a
good sample of heroin further
deconstruction of the bag reveals this
is a large Hall the large gray bag has
we removed the whole side of it and it
1.8 kilos so there's two of those in the
bag so we're looking here at at least
3.6 kilos in that bag and it's not the
only bag that has a narcotic
concealment plus we've got the laptop
bag which suspect has maybe at least
another half a kilo in it we're not
going to do anything with that we're
going to let the federal police use that
um as they want if they want us to test
it we will and we're still just going
through the third bag and we don't know
if there's any concealment in that the
whole time the New Zealand man has
remained incredibly calm yeah he's cool
like he's just sitting back just taking
notes you know he's been informed of his
rights and yeah even when it come up
positive for what we got it's um yeah
he's just sitting back
like it's a normal die at the
office the Australian federal police
arrive and arrest the man on the belief
of importing a border controlled drug
and if found guilty he will spend
considerable time in jail for Australian
Border Force officers it's been a very
satisfying day so yeah very very good
Hall
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the passenger is on a working holiday
Visa because she's been in and out
multiple times in the last 6 months it's
just a bit of an odd travel movement for
us
they will now will conduct a full
baggage
examination and immediately there are
concerns about a laptop found in the
woman's suitcase is this your laptop
it's me it's yours yeah did you buy this
one or someone give to you my sister go
to buy your sister buy this okay for you
or for someone else oh for me for you
okay I just want to check check there's
anything inside this one
okay so Smugglers have been known to
conceal elicit Goods inside Electronics
so officer Jenna decides to check using
the X-ray when I zoom into it if it is I
don't know part of the hardware I'd
expect it to be really straight but it's
sort of a little curved I don't know
exactly what it is just yet next a swab
is taken from the laptop to check for
narcotics
this computer gets the all clear but
it's not the only one in her possession
you have two laptops this is my friend
this is for your friend yes who is your
friend your friend is here yes Melbourne
in Melbourne what is your friend's
name
fet what's your friend's name
bet
yes is from Hong Kong yes your friend's
from Hong Kong let's try this laptop and
and the second laptop is scanned they
get a very different
result
wow it's
huge this non-english-speaking woman
arriving from China has completed a
passenger card in English immediately
raising the concern of bio security
officers who filled it in for her who
did
this the passenger explains how a fellow
traveler completed the legal document
for her while the card does include a
declaration the bag search soon reveals
some highrisk items which appear to be
purposefully concealed can you please
tell her she has the seeds in her shoe
she shouldn't do that still get in
trouble
officer Andrea now needs a clear answer
on what the woman is declaring before
searching the rest of her luggage can
you ask her one more thing does she have
any more seeds for the
garden okay if I find any I will find
her just explain that to
her okay thank
you a translator confirms that the woman
says she is not carrying any more seeds
it's a very full bag
just making sure you got no more
seeds
CP Corps are primarily used in herbal
medicine as an
aphrodesiac the parasitic fungus is an
environmental risk but that's just the
beginning officer Andrea now finds
another serious threat to Australia's
biocurity and what is this what is
that today the Australian Border Force
compliance team has traveled to the wit
Sunday's town of
Bowen they are preparing to execute a
search warrant on a nearby Farmhouse
after receiving intelligence suggesting
there may be illegal workers residing
there the information suggests there
could be up to 15 people or more okay so
we need everybody on their game don't
forget your s uh so when we go in going
go quick smooth make sure you're paying
attention to what's going on get that
perimeter set just keep aware of each
other remember that uh if you're in
trouble help help help if it's all
becoming a bit of an issue out out out
the town of Bowen is also known as the
fruit bowl of the north so with lots of
harvesting work available it attracts
many Travelers some without working
visas on arrival officers Park away from
in the house so as not to alert anyone
inside to their
presence they need to be careful as they
are unsure how many people are
there they approach cautiously and
surround the perimeter in case anyone
inside attempts to
flee border Force have a warrant I'm
entering the building the warrant is
quickly executed and the search for
occupants
begins it's a tense time for officers as
initially the rooms appear empty
hello
hello a number of females are located in
one bedroom and some males in another
have a seat thank you they are ushered
into a central room so officers can keep
a close watch while they determine if
any of them are living here and working
illegally
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yeah is this
way everyone's documents are checked
thank you officers confirm that most of
the occupants hold Bonafide passports
and valid working visas however a South
Korean man is pulled aside as it appears
he may be living here on an expired
tourist visa I reasonably suspect that
you're an unlawful non-citizen that is
someone who does not hold a visa to
remain in Australia
the man Mr Lee will be kept under close
watch as he is questioned with the help
of a Korean interpreter how long have
you lived here
for where did you live before you lived
here in sheon in shepperton Sheeran is a
Victorian Town also well known for its
Harvest industry and officer Aaron
suspects the man has been working
illegally since he arrived in the
country over 6 months ago Mr um are you
working have you been
working weeks ago I worked with a couple
of days at the moment I'm not working Mr
Le I find that a bit hard to believe
it's in your best interest to be honest
with us okay so are you
working
no yes okay and what sort of work are
you
doing uh picking picking yeah
that how are you paid for this work is
it cash
in with this admission Mr Lee will be
detained while everyone else is given
the all clear we are going to continue
your interview um at another location
here in Bowen he has given time to pack
some of his belongings before being
taken for further
questioning all right Mr Lee will need
to provide officers with a compelling
reason as to why why he should be
allowed to remain in
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Australia what is
sir I asked you you will be fine today
for giving me a misleading question and
answer fresh sprouting garlic cannot be
brought into the country because of the
high risk that it could carry pests and
diseases dangerous to Australian
agriculture any more seeds you said Mayo
what's
this after officers found seeds the
woman claimed there were no more in her
bags but it has now become clear that
she was lying as officer Andrea
continues to find them concealed in baby
clothes I asked you the lady asked you
you said no
more one after the other risk items
continue to be found in the woman's
luggage
including this fresh plant material and
an unknown raw meat product into a
vitamin bottle bottle this is clearly
marked a fish oil capsules but when
we've opened it up inside today it's not
a capsule it's some sort of a awful of
some animal we could be risking putot
and mouth disease we're going to be
seizing that today it is clear that the
woman will be f for failing to declare
restricted items but the problem now is
getting her to pay attention and and
face the music you're going to be fine
$360 you are read
this no read this you read
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that you read
that you read
that read
this read you read
that so a fellow chinesee speaking
passenger helps with Transit
he said got enough money well then
she'll have to go back to
immigration now claiming to have zero
funds to pay the fine the woman may put
her entire visit to Australia in
Jeopardy so it's cocaine and ketamine
High readings very very high so we'll
have a a closer look at the laptop
now there are now increasing concerns
about the woman's Behavior she like
really fetting
she's quite nervous very Twitchy just a
bit um on edge officer Jenna questions
the passenger directly do you use drugs
what drugs have you used any drugs
narcotics unable to get a clear answer
officers must now take a closer look at
the suspect computer I'm just not happy
with that laptop so we're going to check
inside this one okay and a thorough
examination shows no indication of
concealed drugs however things take a
dramatic turn when photos appearing to
contain something highly illegal are now
found on the woman's phone that one
there's one thing you might want to else
you want to bring up pictures of some
pills they don't look like normal pills
these look like party
pills he has been taken to a Conference
Center in town but before border Force
officers decide his fate they have a few
questions about how he came to be
working here did the person who arranged
your work in Victoria also arrange your
work in
Queensland no different person different
person okay do you know how they
arranged the work did they use Facebook
or call anyone just call
just officers use the opportunity to
gather as much intelligence as possible
about how illegal work in this industry
is organized the main purpose of today's
operation is to uh disrupt the illegal
work that's happening in the Harvest
Trail industry um where not just
focusing on the workers but also their
employers did the amount you were paid
match up with how much you should have
gotten yeah it's good it matched
it people working without visas or
working illegally on their visas it can
lead to uh poor pay practices and
dangerous practices and so as part of
that we try and disrupt those Industries
where they're using illegal workers and
not really checking visas properly while
he has been Cooperative during the
interview a call must be made on his
future in Australia he said he's clear
intention is stay here and work as long
as he could just intention was to live
here as long as he could border Force
officers will now inform him of their
decision you're going to go into ongoing
immigration
detention so what that means is you will
be coming with us do you understand that
um so what will happen is finish up here
okay and then you'll be transported to
an immigration detention center from
there your options will be discussed Mr
Le did arrive in Australia on a Visa
that did not allow work with the
intention to work at the beginning which
of course is not what that Visa is for
and so this is sort of led to where he
is at today
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my major concern is she's carrying
narcotics in her bags or on her
person and now officers will conduct
another test with a swab from her
luggage
GHB GHB now it's another positive result
this time for a different and deadly
substance GHB Is A Dangerous Drug and
it's a what's known as a date rape drug
officers now step up the investigation
and the passenger is taken to a private
interview room for further questioning
we'll get the um interpreter going so I
can actually talk to her in there at the
BR all
right and it doesn't take long for
officers to find out find they are
looking for and it might land the woman
in very serious trouble we located a
picture in a phone with pills in it and
then we question her about it she's
pulled these out of her bag so we're
just going to test them
now they got specs in them they look
like ecstasy they really do officer
Jenna asks the passenger to clarify
exactly what it is that she's carrying
into the country what is in this pill I
am pointing to what is it yeah
medication what is it tell me what the
medication is just be
honest it was only prescribed to me just
then so I don't know the passenger will
not identify the pills so they must now
undergo thorough investigation so for
test on them just to get an accurate
reading but the highly accurate first
Defender test comes back negative
nothing no it's probably not coming up
with anything cuz it's probably just
herbs and stuff but if it is Chinese
medicine cuz it usually is something it
will come up straight away and a
secondary Nick test confirms that the
pills are not illicit drugs I am looking
for any color change cuz it can go three
or four different colors
and isn't changed at
all despite her belongings returning
positive for traces of cocaine ketamin
and GHB an exhaustive investigation has
revealed that the woman is not
attempting to bring any narcotics into
the country today so she is now free to
cross the border as to the drug readings
that we had it is possible that her or
her friends may use illicit drugs but
I'm confident nothing is coming through
aort today with this
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passenger found all these seeds in the
baby clothes obviously she's bringing in
baby clothes so she had all these tucked
in baby clothes okay and she also had
that okay I didn't know that otherwise I
definitely I I told you told her many
many times you know not to bring
anything into the Australian Australian
C very Street yes that's right and she
also had plant material fresh plant
material and these and these were in the
shoe in baby shoes she failed to tell me
okay so that's apologize for that well
she's going to be fine $360 today okay I
do apologize for that not going to
happen again okay well she won't happen
again because we're going to put on a
report every time she travels through
we're going to be looking in her bags
okay so after the high-risk items are
confiscated and destroyed one very
forgiving son pays her fine this
gentleman's paying for his mom 3 she can
now enter the country Having learned a
valuable lesson at his
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expense at Sydney International Airport
Australian Border Force officers have
stopped a passenger arriving home
Vietnam with her four
children they have concerns after an
initial swab test of some food she is
carrying returned a positive resid for
the prohibited substance eerr so what
we'll do so we're going to have a look
and make sure that everything is okay I
also want to have a look inside the
other bags
too epidrin is a precursor used in the
manufacture of drugs such as ice and
officers need to carry out a full
baggage search to determine what may
have caused the
reading this one your
Cosmetics body wash oh yeah
officer Ronda continues to search her
belongings while supervising officer
Jeremy has a few questions for the
passenger right we might have to open up
some of these okay cuz we've had those
drug readings we kind of need to go
through some of your your belongs to
find out if that was a false reading or
if you've actually carrying drugs with
you today okay so we're going to we're
going to have a look in to make sure it
is what it is so this is coffee coffee
tea tea in this
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one packaged food will be opened and
inspected and while an x-ray of her
empty suitcase gets the all clear
officers are most concerned about three
sealed bottles of ha of products that
the woman is carrying she claims she is
bringing them back into the country for
a
friend officers suspicions AR even
further when an inconsistency is
detected on the X-ray image look at that
one there look at
that not consistent with
liquid officer Jeremy immediately opens
the bottle to check its
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contents if you can just have a look in
there there's a small plastic package my
suspicion is that is
drugs in Sydney an American has been
taken as side for a formal interview as
records indicate he overstayed his last
trip by 2
years so you told me that you are here
on holidays is that correct absolutely
to have a holiday and relax and get away
from school and
work a
holiday but officers are concerned about
the man's ability to finance his short
stay you don't carry any cash is that
correct correct okay he claims he'll be
be using credit to fund his trip so how
much you have on your credit card I have
about 1,000 on one 1,000 on the other so
that's we
20 so now that you are coming back where
are you going to stay I'm going to be
stay staying with Steven in Sur Hills
how do you know Steven I know Stephen
from when I lived here before he worked
at a restaurant that I
frequented his story will need to be
verified but he still needs to explain
why he overstayed for 2 years on his
last trip I met someone and I thought we
were in love so in wooing that person I
continued to stay here past my Visa it's
a serious breach of his previous Visa
conditions and officer y needs to
consult with supervising officer Ross he
is saying that um he's a selfemployed
taxi driver he said he earns about 800
to 900 per week in today's economic
world it's quite a substantial income
yeah when the baggage search was done
you did a money count money he yeah I
asked he doesn't carry cash yeah he said
that he have two credit cards and they
have 2,000 $2,000 on the credit cards so
he's got no cash at all n no there's no
cash but none at all no cash yet not
even a dollar said no
cash I have concerns about this man's
credibility we may have a repeat of his
previous immigration history because he
is a former 2-year overstayer and he's
claiming to you to earn $800 to $900 a
week but he's arrived with no money yeah
that's what he that's odd he doesn't
have a Zach on him
nothing importing prohibited Goods into
the country is a serious offense and
officers step up the
investigation I want you to listen to me
very carefully now okay I'm going to
caution you okay you do not have to say
or do anything but anything that you do
say or do will be recorded and may be
used as evidence basically what's
happened is I've x-rayed this item and
there's a package inside there okay it's
not shampoo okay when I've squeeze this
it doesn't feel like shampoo and when
I've x-rayed it there's a big
package do you know what that is no no
no you don't know what it
is okay I'm going to move I'm going to
we're going to move into a room now okay
so we'll pack all your gear up that it
appears this woman may be attempting to
carry narcotics into the country and her
situation is about to take a dramatic
Turn For
Worse we got a label here it says Hey M
hey got some poo for you brand in there
and yep definitely looks like feces we
got to get rid of
it some people go to Great length to
hide
prohibited bit lumpy lumpy for a book
using clever concealments to avoid well
what is what got some
seeds quite an interesting name for a
book to be used uh for smuggling of
seats and the contents of some packages
are highly restricted nice bit of hair
you b a ham complete with hoof you don't
see that every day David
no to help identify possible biocurity
risks officers rely on detected dogs dog
good girl good dog good and today in
Sydney detector dog xandi has reacted to
this parcel sent from GH in Africa so
the box is taken for further inspection
uh something medicine medicine that
could be anything couldn't all right
we'll have a look as the first bag is
opened offers are immediately concerned
about the contents lot of plant material
God bark here it's all
soils pretty moldy isn't it it hasn't
been dried properly bark is a prohibited
import into Australia as it can carry
foreign pests and contaminants that
could pose a major threat to our
environment and
agriculture I know why they would be
sending this but uh because it's still
wet there could be molds in it mold
spores other plant diseases insects also
viruses all sorts of things the box also
contains the empty shells of giant
African snails as well as cuttlefish and
Officer Phil believes he knows what the
unusual collection is for probably used
in some sort of U herbal medicine up or
we could actually be used in a religious
ceremony as we've gone through her items
and swapped her items we've had positive
readings for
drugs um and from that we've just sort
of narrowed down her luggage to these
two bottles here um we're not completely
satisfied that there may not be more but
we definitely know that these two
bottles here um have packages in them
containing idink or or narcotic the
woman will be questioned further using
an interpreter while in the testing room
officers have found another
concealment so inside we've got a body
wash um and there's looks like it's
there's a dense item underneath it
possibly a plastic bag concealing some
kind of other product it's a little bit
hard to tell so we're going to have to
try to get something out to test it and
it doesn't end there with this um this
bottle of water appears to be some sort
of hair cream when I use the the rod it
only takes me down to that
far so I feel that there's a package
underneath here of some kind so I'm
going to have to empty a little bit this
out I think this cream looks like what
it should be but my concern is what's
underneath here so I'm going to have to
empty it
out as the container is emptied it's
immediately obvious that it's only half
full of hair
cream okay whatever what appears that
that we've got here is there's some sort
of substance down here and it's been
placed in this container and it's been
wrapped in a plastic
bag I think what the person or the
people have hoped to achieve is um
remove the contents of the the bottle
jar um put the substance that's in this
plastic bag put the cream on top of it
hoping that maybe if customers were to
look at it we just open it up have a
look to make sure the consisten is the
same and release it the plastic is
opened and reveals an off-white powder
which officer Kathy strongly suspects is
more
drones see that it seems to be like a a
creamy color so what I have to do now is
try to extract an amount uh from this
substance to test out on
technology first Defender Laser
Technology will identify exactly what
the powder is while in the interview
room the passenger still insists she had
no idea it was in her
luggage so what can you show to us that
you going back within the 3 weeks first
of all I have a very good job at this
time I also am still a registered
student so without a doubt I'm leaving
here you mention it to me that you are
so steady so
what uh computer information system
Specialists basically
software and how long have you in steady
for i' would say about 3 years now if
this claim is true it would indicate
that the man has commitments back home
to return
to we need for him to demonstrate that
he is in fact a genuine student you have
a student ID card yeah and in terms of
um can I have a look at that ID
C does this have an expiring date and
there's expiring date there and I exped
so how how is he identifying himself as
a legitimate student with with a with a
card that is in fact 2 years out of date
I'm not satisfied that he is in fact a
student concerned that he's not telling
the whole truth truth officer y
confronts the passenger with his
findings I don't know what it is you
have against me that you think I'm lying
to you I don't have a reason to lie to
you I'm here for a vacation I'm here for
3 weeks you don't want me here you've
gone through all my business you know
more than me than a lot of people know
know about me and that is none of their
business what we're doing here is
assessing whether he will in fact
demonstrate that he will abide by the
conditions that are applied to his Visa
and given his past and certainly some of
the information given
today
um I've got my doubts I've done what I
can do for you so put me back on a plane
let me go home because I'm I'm about my
vacation that is turning out to be a
headache and not
fun caught in my feather of some sort
yeah there a bit of animal hair there
yeah officers suspect the contents are
intended for use in traditional medicine
or some sort of
ritual all that has a little piece of
bone in it could be used to to grind up
to make medicine or could be used in a
ceremony and then they make a
particularly gruesome
Discovery it
smells what is
this look at that that's a chameleon a
whole chameleon dry chameleon got snakes
there are several species of dried
reptiles but that's not all look at this
a bird head a bird head is the beak yeah
it's like a it's like an eagle or
something like that officers are
immediately concerned about the
condition the bird's head head of a
Raptor there will be flesh inside the
neck neck bone there'll be skin under
the feathers cuz the feathers are all
attached so could be bring bird diseases
it could have insect infestations
diseases so uh it's definitely
out needs to be destroyed none of the
high-risk animal or plant material in
the Box can be allowed to enter the
country so all the items are seized and
will be
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destroyed I'm coming to visit a friend
that's it nothing else I'm not staying I
have obligations at
home so what did what do you do in us
I'm an independent contractor I drive
for Yellow Cab taxi cab company and
while driving the C how much do you earn
while driving the C how much do I earn
um I would say anywhere from 800 to 900
a week so how many days do you work per
week 3 to four days I work from 6:00 in
the evening till 6:00 in the morning so
you work in the night so you do a night
shift so I can do go to school during
the day that's the way I work
but officers still have doubts about his
story as his student ID expired 2 years
ago stickers that you go and you get put
on there and you have to go back every
year to get a new one I stopped going
back to get it but I am registered and I
am still in school I can prove that it's
valid by going to online and it's
possible to show that you are still
enrolled into the school
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yeah officer y escorts him to a computer
to check his enrollment
online but what the passenger is unaware
of is that supervisor Ross is already
calling the man's employer in the
us when we get concealments like this
we're really interested in in how they
get the product in there and cuz this is
so Compact and we couldn't see any
evidence of tampering in the top it just
paid a little bit closer attention to
the
bottom and it looks like they've
actually cut the bottom out and put a
false bottom in
so the bottom there is all soft where
they've heated it up and remolded it the
same thing happened with the uh body
Jael you can see where they've split the
bottom open resealed it up this is
definitely isn't a backyard job this
isn't someone done at home that this is
like a factory factory style concealment
so they probably doing multiple jobs
like
this using first Defender Laser
Technology officer Kathy has identified
the substance I've come back with uh
what appears to be a presumptive
positive for pseudo
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edrine epidrin is an illegal import into
Australia as it's used to manufacture
narcotics such as
ice officer Kathy carries out a
secondary test if the liquid turns
purple it's a positive
result so I pretty much say that
everything in the shampoo bottles would
be pseudo iDine or iDine
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are you able to give me a confirmation
of whether this guy actually works for
you or not off a y is confirming his
current enrollment as a student you can
see that I was enrolled in class and
still am enrolled in class these are my
grades this semester this semester I'm
pretty good huh very good thank
you his story checks out and so to his
finances which are adequate for his
short stay this one and this one
combined is is about 2,000 okay Officer
Ross also gets positive confirmation
about the man's on on goinging
employment you've satisfied my inquiry
Christine I have had a conversation with
your employer and they are expecting you
back to go to work I hope so I still
have a job I hope when I get back in
essence what we have done today for you
is a happy outcome and uh we welcome you
to our wonderful City and hope you enjoy
it once again much I appreciate it I'm
satisfied that he's a genuine visitor
for tourism and to meet his friend on
shore
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