Wednesday February 21
7:30pm (PG)

In tonight’s special edition of BORDER SECURITY: AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE, we showcase some of the amazing lengths people will go to in order to smuggle drugs, illegal goods and people into the country.

In tonight’s episode:

• The mysterious and foul-smelling contents of an unidentified bag leave officers baffled. What’s hidden inside? Judging by its smell and feel, officers suspect it could be a dead animal or part of an animal or other remains. If it’s undeclared, someone will have both customs and quarantine, or maybe the police, to answer to.

• A fairly ordinary parcel attracts an extraordinary amount of attention at Customs mail centre. The incense sticks inside look innocent enough but officers smell something fishy.

• Immigration officers descend on a furniture factory after receiving information about a number of unlawful non-citizens from China working at the business. They’re walking into an unpredictable situation and will have to move quickly if they’re to apprehend the illegal workers.

• A woman arriving from China claims she has nothing to declare but the x-ray reveals she has some sort of food in her bag. The passenger has some unusual packing around her lights to stop them from breaking and it’s the edible kind. Despite the dozens of food packets through her luggage, the woman is having a hard time understanding what she’s done wrong.