Increasingly, checkpoint officers have observed that traffickers are turning to more deceptive means of concealment, in a bid to evade the stringent checks in place. In just the first half of this year, ICA has seen highly creative delivery modes for contraband and people smuggling, including the use of smokescreens such as tow-truck services, fake fibreglass natural gas tank, and even sealing the contraband within cement and fish tanks. Unfortunately, the syndicates overlooked the highly-trained ICA officers who are assisted with electronic “eyes” deployed at the checkpoints to see through their antics with a swift sweep of technology, i.e. gamma-ray and X-ray scanners.

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