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00:08BORDER SECURITY
00:10Tonight on Border Security
00:13Two men are questioned
00:14It's very, very nervous
00:16Officers think there could be a sinister connection
00:19They reckon this one might be internal, so if you're thinking that one as well
00:22A terrifying x-ray image forces an airport evacuation
00:26It appears that it could be some sort of explosive device
00:29And this man's future plans are shattered at the border
00:33You're going to give it back?
00:35No, no, it will be destroyed
00:51At Sydney Airport, Customs and Border Protection have pulled aside two passengers for an inspection
00:57They have both returned from trips to Vietnam and appear to be travelling separately
01:04What our concerns are, you know, you've got all this travel going to Vietnam
01:08Obviously costs a fair bit
01:09You told me you earned 40,000 a year, is that correct?
01:12More than 40,000 a year
01:27Yeah, and just the jacket, the way it's done up
01:30Yeah, yeah
01:31Do you want some water?
01:33No, thank you
01:34No?
01:35Thank you very much
01:35No?
01:36How long have you lived in Australia for?
01:40Three years?
01:41Three years?
01:41Do you have family outside?
01:43Yeah, yeah, yeah
01:44Who is picking you up?
01:47Who is outside?
01:48My girlfriend
01:49Your girlfriend?
01:51Officer Gina will now talk with the other passenger to establish if there is a connection between the two men
01:58He just reckons he went to Hanoi
02:00He was very vague about where he stayed even last night
02:04He couldn't name the hotel
02:05Okay
02:07Hello sir
02:08You go to Vietnam a lot of times
02:10Yeah
02:11Nearly every month
02:12He asking, another lady asking
02:14You come asking
02:16One man come asking
02:17Every time I come back
02:19Because we are assessing you
02:22To see whether you are telling us the truth or not
02:24Check this button
02:25Not here
02:27Okay
02:27I haven't finished checking you though, sir
02:38In Perth, a man returning from a business trip to Italy has been stopped by quarantine
02:44He hasn't declared anything of quarantine interest
02:47Our officer has looked at the x-ray and decided that there's some things that needed to be looked at
02:52there
02:53Upon opening the bag, officers have discovered a large amount of cheese as well as some unidentified meat
03:00This is written in English
03:01Can you tell me what the ingredients of this are?
03:05What is this exactly? What sort of meat is it?
03:08It's big
03:08It's pork
03:10Pork
03:10Pork
03:11Pork could carry diseases including foot and mouth and classical swine fever that do not exist in Australia
03:20So, sir, you didn't declare the food there today
03:25I wasn't thinking about food
03:30But it is food
03:31It is
03:32And you needed to have answered this question truthfully here
03:36Oh, yeah, but anyway, come through the machine, you can see it
03:41Yeah, but it is your responsibility to tell us about food that you have
03:47But
03:48The risk involved
03:49I'm gonna make a business
03:50I'm gonna take the staff over here
03:52Yeah
03:53I'm gonna take them
03:54Yeah, unfortunately you're not allowed to
03:56Yes
03:57He has plans to start commercially importing the meat
04:00And this is an important test sample for his new business
04:04This product, you're gonna take in quarantine, eh?
04:07And then you're gonna give it back?
04:08Is that right?
04:09No, no, it will be destroyed
04:12So I come up to here
04:15For nothing
04:18Up
04:19Yep, find it
04:24At the air cargo unit, officers are conducting routine x-ray inspections of incoming parcels referred by Australia Post
04:33All these packages are out of India
04:36We're looking for any inconsistencies on the x-ray image
04:39This parcel was set aside for inspection because it's addressed to a residence that is already under investigation
04:47Because of the previous consignments that have come up with positive hits
04:52The screeners have given us some information on this which suggests it probably needs a closer look
04:57So therefore we're gonna really concentrate on it and give it a 100% examination
05:01The consignee note
05:04Supposedly says shirts and cards
05:08Supposedly in the package
05:09Definitely doesn't look like it's just clothing
05:11We can see some inconsistencies there in the picture
05:15It's a little bit darker there
05:17It suggests there could be some organic material
05:19We put it on a negative image
05:21We can see that that shows the difference in the consistency between the possible clothing and whatever else it is
05:28that's in there
05:28That comes up really clearly there
05:31Which makes us quite confident there could be something more than clothes in there
05:41At Sydney Airport, officers are assessing two anxious passengers
05:46They need to establish if the men's behaviour is because they're being questioned
05:51Or because they have something to hide
05:54But don't you know just asking asking this man come
05:57That man come
05:58Well that is how
05:59That's how we check you
06:01By speaking to you
06:02That is what our job is
06:03Our job is to question you
06:05To speak to passengers
06:06To see if they are telling us the truth
06:10Right?
06:10So we can have a picture of what you're saying to us
06:13And if we think that you are not telling us the truth
06:15Or if there is an inconsistency with your story
06:18Then we will call somebody else over
06:21Which this officer has done
06:23So I can come and question you in relation to your travel
06:26Meanwhile at the other bench
06:28Officers are noting the second passengers composure
06:31He's not interested in what we're doing
06:33Oh he's looking very
06:36He's very very nervous
06:39He's remaining unusually still
06:42While the other man seems impatient to leave
06:45The behaviour of both men is concerning
06:48And officers will need to consider all possibilities
06:51Whenever we start asking more questions
06:53He keeps looking his lips
06:54So is this guy? He keeps looking his lips too
06:56Because they reckon this one might be internal
06:58So if you're thinking that one as well
07:12Budding food in Porto Pietro is fighting to keep his prize winning sample of cured Italian pork
07:20This is a champion
07:21This?
07:22This is the face of thousands
07:24It's champion meat?
07:25It's champion meat, yes
07:26This is?
07:27Yes
07:27Australia has very strict quarantine rules
07:31Because we don't have a lot of the disease that a lot of other countries do
07:35We have very strict quarantine laws
07:37This one doesn't fit the way that we allow pork to come into Australia
07:4270% of the meat we eat here we're brought from Italy
07:48Yes
07:48And it's all
07:49This is the classic
07:50That's right
07:51It has all come in under strict import permit conditions
07:55This one you do not have an import permit for it, do you?
08:00Even 40 days, quarantine means 40 days, is that right?
08:05We don't quarantine products of that type at all
08:08It is destroyed if it doesn't fit with the rules of what's allowed in
08:13And so today we're going to have to fine you for bringing that food through
08:18For not declaring it to us
08:20You have to pay 220 Australian dollars?
08:23You don't
08:23What about the products?
08:27The products are not allowed to come in in that form
08:31So they will be seized
08:34Can I discuss this in court?
08:37Can I discuss this in court?
08:49Because they reckon this one might be internal
08:51So if you're thinking that one as well
08:52In Sydney, officers are concerned about two passengers arriving from Vietnam
08:57One of the men has barely moved
09:00It's very, very nervous
09:02The other man appears annoyed and argumentative
09:06I don't care
09:07When I come back, you know
09:09You check my leg
09:10And ask me question
09:12Okay
09:12If nothing, let me go
09:14If you think we got something in my stomach
09:17Send me go
09:18Doctor
09:18Well we are still doing checks
09:20We are still doing checks
09:22You check only this one, how long you check?
09:25Five hours?
09:26Six hours?
09:26I'm doing other checks at the moment
09:28How long? Five hours?
09:29I don't think a flight's been down here for five hours
09:31They've only been here at the barrier for about 20 minutes
09:35Yeah, but I, you know
09:36I'm just telling you
09:37We are assessing you at the moment
09:38I know, but I go overseas
09:41Coming back
09:41Okay
09:42It's your job
09:43You're checking me
09:43Yep
09:44And that's what we're doing
09:45I have everything
09:53At the Sydney Air Cargo Unit
09:56Officers are taking a closer look at a package that is just derived from India
10:02With a couple of boxes
10:03Yep
10:07These are supposed to be the shirts
10:12Looks like it could be traditional Indian clothing
10:16There's a bit of a gluey smell coming
10:18From the parcel
10:19I can smell
10:20Without even trying
10:22That's also making us a little bit suspicious
10:25Quite often concealments are glued into the material
10:31Just recently we actually
10:33Did get a find in this area
10:35From India
10:36With heroin glued into a material
10:40The actual garment's heavy
10:42Feels heavier
10:43Heavier than a garment should actually feel
10:47You can feel it
10:48Feels rigid there too
10:51It's very stiff
10:52It's pretty stiff
10:54We'll definitely have something in here
10:55It's like some glue or something there in the material
10:57That's what we're smelling I think
11:00Just unwrap a little bit more
11:02Here we go
11:14It's another busy morning at Brisbane Airport
11:16And it's business as usual
11:18Until officers spot something on the x-ray
11:21That stops them in their tracks
11:23Basically this morning we've had an interception on an x-ray machine
11:27By one of my officers
11:29And it appears that it could be some sort of explosive device
11:33The x-ray image is a major concern
11:36And there seems to be little doubt as to what it is
11:39It appears to be a metal grenade
11:41It has a pin in it
11:42And a normal shape of a grenade
11:44So what we do
11:44We immediately stop the belt
11:46The bag stays within the x-ray machine
11:48And we evacuate the area
11:50The terminal is filled with passengers
11:52Officers will need to take immediate emergency action
11:57So what we do is we simply isolate that area
11:59We move everyone calmly
12:02And efficiently out the side exits
12:04Federal police bomb appraisal officers
12:06Have been called to determine if the grenade is live
12:23Pietro is not allowed to keep his prize winning pork
12:26That he had planned would help kick off his food import business
12:30Can I discuss this in court?
12:33Can I discuss this in court?
12:34You can take it to court
12:36But I want to discuss about the product
12:38Not the $220
12:40It's not that
12:41I want to discuss the products
12:43I want to make business if I can
12:45That won't be what will be discussed in court
12:48The officer explains how to apply for the correct permits
12:52So next time, before you come
12:55If you want to bring something in
12:57Ring and find out
12:59How you did
13:01You did and it doesn't work
13:03All right
13:04I give you double if you let me take even the champions
13:07No chance of that
13:09But there's some good news for Pietro
13:12He is allowed to keep his cheese
13:14Only that was the problem
13:16It was the meat that we were concerned about
13:19You needed to have checked before you came about those
13:23But you're lucky they are allowed
13:25I won't believe it
13:26I won't believe it
13:28He was very sad because he thinks, you know, this pig meat from Italy is of the highest quality
13:35Which it may be, but it doesn't fit our conditions for entry into Australia in that form without an import
13:41permit
13:41I'm going to rig all the papers, I'm going to do the way, but anyway I will try
13:48At the end I will keep trying to do it because I know Australia needs the pig
14:03Officers have discovered a mysterious package glued onto fabric that's arrived from India
14:09Actual garments glued onto the package
14:11Feel that, feels like there's powder in there
14:15There's definitely powder in there
14:18We'll just make a little incision
14:22What's it look like in there?
14:25Powder?
14:26Brown powder?
14:27Brown powder, yes
14:30Heroin can come in either a white powder or a brown powder
14:33In this case it's brown
14:35Which is a little bit more coarser
14:38Just try to get a little bit, a little bit out
14:41Just a little sample just to test it with
14:44And as you can see
14:46It's a brown powder
14:48Powder
14:49So we'll just test it for heroin
14:51And we'll see what we come up with
14:54So what we need to do
14:55Just a small bit of powder
14:58Into the test tube
14:59We'll break the vial
15:03If the test is positive
15:04The liquid will turn a purplish, reddy colour
15:09Looks like we've got heroin here by the
15:11Especially when you look at the sample itself
15:13It's a really deep
15:16Reddy sort of colour
15:18The test proves that the brown powder is in fact a raw grade of heroin
15:50We are assisting
15:51In Sydney
15:52Opposite
15:53Officer Gina has calmed an irritated passenger
15:55And she has managed to question him on his frequent trips to Vietnam
16:00So if you're happy with the bag, just repack the bag
16:03The other man who seems to be extremely nervous is also causing concern
16:08Officers still need to establish if the two men are connected in any way
16:12How long were you in Vietnam?
16:15Two weeks
16:16And why did you go to Vietnam?
16:20Why did you go to Vietnam?
16:27You have no family in Vietnam?
16:30Mother, father?
16:31No one? Your father here?
16:34There are suspicions that both of the men could be concealing contraband
16:39Officers call on the dog unit to sniff the men for narcotics
16:44Okay? We're gonna run the dogs past you
16:46The dogs are gonna come
16:47And just walk around you
16:59The dog responds strongly to the shoes of one of the men
17:04Can I get you to stand over here?
17:06So the dog can run past you
17:08Okay?
17:09But has no reaction to the other man
17:17Alright, thanks Dave
17:20The other one
17:21The dog reacted to his shoes
17:24Thank you so you can come back to the barrier
17:26Now
17:28Was he licking him?
17:30He was smelling him
17:31He was smelling him
17:33He was smelling him as well
17:46In Brisbane, a disturbing image on the x-ray has brought a busy airport to a standstill
17:52When you see an x-ray image like that
17:54Then you really do take concern about it
17:56And people's safety straight away
17:57Half the terminal is cleared until AFP bomb appraisal officers can determine whether they are dealing with a live grenade
18:04Obviously safety is paramount
18:06We want to make sure the passengers and everyone who's in the area is safe
18:10And that there's no chance that there could be any follow-on from any explosions
18:14While the bomb squad inspects the bag, the owner is interviewed and some interesting information is uncovered
18:22They're actually ex-military as well, here for some training
18:25You really do ask questions
18:27After an intense wait, the officers make a surprise discovery
18:31What we have here is a metallic belt buckle
18:33It's in the shape of a grenade
18:35We also have the pin
18:36We also have the handle which pops up
18:38And when that goes through an x-ray machine it actually turns in blue because it is made of metal
18:43So therefore gives the appearance of a real grenade
18:46And that's why we just don't take any chances at all
18:48Everyone breathes a sigh of relief
18:51However, the owner of the harmless belt buckle has caused a huge disruption to a busy airport
18:57Even though it is a belt buckle can be a serious offence
18:59And we treat it as serious until it's just discovered that it's not a problem
19:15Was he licking him?
19:18Any available helo unit possible
19:21A detector dog has had a strong reaction to the shoes of this passenger
19:25He will now be escorted to a private interview room
19:28Do it with an interpreter
19:30Ask him through the interpreter if he has anything in his shoes
19:33Okay sir, put your bag on the trolley
19:41Is he on the square?
19:42Yeah he has
19:43Officers notice that the man is walking strangely
19:45Is he on this one?
19:46Has someone got a minute?
19:48Yeah
19:50Okay, come through
19:53Wow
19:53Meanwhile there are still concerns about the other man
19:57Have you ever been in trouble with the police?
20:00Never
20:02I've been lost for 30 years
20:03Never happened to the police
20:05A frisk search is conducted to make sure he is not concealing anything illegal on his body
20:12Got nothing in your shoes at all?
20:14No
20:14Up here
20:16If you don't mind if you like
20:21Excellent
20:23Thank you
20:24Okay just relax
20:26The frisk search is negative
20:28And the officers are convinced he has no connection with the other man
20:33Nothing illegal has been found
20:35And he's free to go
20:37Okay
20:38Okay
20:41All right
20:41However there is a major development in the interview room
20:44The passenger has admitted that he is carrying narcotics
20:48I said are you carrying anything on your body or in your shoes?
20:53And he went it's in my shoes
20:54He's just made admission it's in the shoes
20:56Was he scared to tell us?
20:57Yes
20:57And I said well you know I've got a duty of care
20:59I said if you've swallowed if they break you're going to die
21:01So please tell us where it is
21:02He said it's in the shoes
21:03I cautioned him
21:04But are we satisfied there's nothing in the belly?
21:06Well not yet
21:07Cineering AFP
21:10The passenger hands over his shoes
21:12And the concealment is immediately obvious
21:35Tomorrow on Border Security
21:39Officers try to make sense of a man's strange story
21:42Sorry slow down a little bit you've lost me
21:44But there's strong suspicions he's up to something
21:47Have you swallowed anything that you shouldn't have swallowed?
21:49An old lamp hides a mysterious substance
21:52We've got a plastic bag in here
21:54Which I doubt is normal
21:56We've got four kilos of it
21:58And a big discovery leads to a tantrum
22:01You guys can't even let a mistake go
22:02Not in this case no
22:07That's Border Security