Customs links identify suspects
PA Wellington Co-operation between the Customs Department and its Australian counterpart has resulted in more than 1000 suspect passengers being identified on arrival in New Zealand. The Minister of Customs, Mr Neilson, said the harmonising of trans-Tasman Customs procedures, one of the first harmonisation agreements achieved under C.E.R., had improved the flow of passengers and trade between New Zealand and Australia. The link between the Australian Customs Service’s passenger alert suspect system and New Zealand’s Customs automatic passenger processing system had meant speedier processing of passengers with legitimate travelling interests. Mr Neilson said it had also seen a marked increase in the identification of suspect passengers to 1158 in the first year of operation compared with 158 for the previous comparable period using a manual sys-. tern.
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