Thursday, September 28, 2006
Something ain't right...
Scary stuff. I kid you not.
At the customs compliance conference, a federal customs officer shared an anecdote about some of the illegal activities that go on today. A security personnel at the Long Beach, CA ocean terminal looked at a container one day and said, "Let's inspect that container over there. Something ain't right about it."
The federal customs officer looked at it and said, "but that's a clean container with 25 secure locks on it. Why that one?"
"A hunch. It says it's a reefer (refrigerated cargo) going to Grenada. Something ain't right..."
Lo and behold... a container full of armed weapons and twenty million dollars in cash.
Yup. And they only happened to catch it this time because the security guy 'had a hunch'. 75% of illegal container seizure comes from snitching. The rest depend on how good the security personnel are.
At the customs compliance conference, a federal customs officer shared an anecdote about some of the illegal activities that go on today. A security personnel at the Long Beach, CA ocean terminal looked at a container one day and said, "Let's inspect that container over there. Something ain't right about it."
The federal customs officer looked at it and said, "but that's a clean container with 25 secure locks on it. Why that one?"
"A hunch. It says it's a reefer (refrigerated cargo) going to Grenada. Something ain't right..."
Lo and behold... a container full of armed weapons and twenty million dollars in cash.
Yup. And they only happened to catch it this time because the security guy 'had a hunch'. 75% of illegal container seizure comes from snitching. The rest depend on how good the security personnel are.
// posted by sakit @ 9:56 PM 
