Name: Customs UK
Released: 2008-07-10T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Jon Rand

TV Show · Documentary · Crime

The water off the coast of the U.K. may look good but it also provides a gateway for people to use to smuggle illegal goods into the country. This documentary series profiles the officers who work to stop the smuggling. They patrol the borders, sometimes with the help of their dogs, preventing the importing of drugs and other illegal items.

2008 · 22m

Starring Jon Rand

EPISODE 2

Drugs and Ammo

At Gatwick, the customs team catch a cocaine smuggler and he confesses that he's being met by an accomplice, so the officers lay a trap to catch him too. Will they trap the right man?

22 min
EPISODE 3

Smuggler's Blues

A passenger caught at Bristol airport with too many cigarettes admits to having done it for years, and the crew of fast cutter Searcher investigate mysterious pot-markers off the Cornish coast.

22 min
EPISODE 4

Boarding Party

In Bristol, customs officer Ann catches three passengers with 87 kilos of tobacco worth nearly £11,000, but tempers boil over when they claim it's all for their own consumption.

22 min
EPISODE 5

Coke Sniffing Dog

Sniffer-dog Badger picks out a suspect suitcase at Gatwick and his handler finds nearly three kilos of cocaine hidden inside, and at Bristol Airport a man is caught smuggling cigarettes.

22 min
EPISODE 6

Jackpot

A ton of cannabis concealed in a truck is discovered at Dover and an intimate search gets to the bottom of a suspected heroin smuggler at Gatwick.

22 min
EPISODE 7

Tip Off

Customs officers board a suspicious yacht off Cornwall and receive an angry welcome. In Dover, officers searching under a truck find an illegal immigrant hiding on top of the engine.

22 min