BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE

7:30pm (PG)

A wardrobe malfunction has officers on the hunt tonight on BORDER SECURITY - AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE. Two men are desperate to enter Australia but Immigration wants answers. And a German artist has a brush with Quarantine.

Customs officers know that contraband can be brought into the country from anywhere in the world and are constantly looking out for any sign that someone might be carrying something they shouldn’t be. A young man arriving from Vietnam has been detained in an interview room because officers have concerns about a large blanket bundle that has shown a few suspicious organic shadings on an x-ray image. There’s a heavily padded jacket within a blanket and officers need to determine if the images are just a part of the jacket’s construction or an attempted concealment. Is the man hiding something or is it just a false alarm?

At Melbourne International Airport two Portuguese men have been referred by Customs to Immigration under suspicion they could be here to work illegally. They have insufficient funds and no genuine holiday plans and work documents have been discovered in their bags. Will they be forced to return home?

In Quarantine, officers are looking at x-ray images of a German artist’s bags. Some inconsistencies suggest that there may be something organic inside. It won’t be a pretty picture if he’s caught with undeclared fruit or plant material and forced to pay a fine.

Narrated by GRANT BOWLER, BORDER SECURITY- AUSTRALIA’S FRONTLINE takes viewers behind the scenes of our Immigration, Customs and Quarantine departments.