Customs inspection officers at Dubai Customs have foiled an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of Captagon pills hidden in a food shipment from an Arab country.
The Jebel Ali and TECOM Customs Center managed to control 5 million and 715,000 tablets of Kptagun. The total quantity seized in the center in four months was 10 million and 715 thousand. The same type, at Jebel Ali Customs Center.
The new Captagon control classes were followed up by the task force monitoring the movements of a commercial container carrying a shipment of foodstuffs, which were monitored by the team since they left the container terminal until they reached the inspection platform at the Jebel Ali Customs Center and Tecom. And the Field Intelligence Task Force, the container. The image taken by the scanning scanner in the sophisticated container inspection system, developed by Dubai Customs, showed a difference in the density of the material in the middle of the container, which is likely to contain hidden substances with varying densities The intensity of the material disclosed. After the container was opened and the goods were fully unloaded, the inspection officers suspected their contents. After the call of the customs dogs unit to participate in the inspections, it was found that some of the bags contained red food lentil. When examined by radiographs, the pills were found in bags Plastic, and initial screening showed that it was for the captagon.
The Director General of the Dubai Customs Department, Ahmed Mahbub Musabah, continued to develop the capabilities of the Department in the field of customs intelligence and risk management, to monitor suspicious materials, and to pre-arrival, to thwart entry into the state.
He added that «the new Captagon control shows the readiness of our customs centers to accomplish their tasks in protecting the country from the dangers and damages of narcotic substances, where the fruit of the work in the spirit of one team and the concerted efforts between the departments and customs centers concerned to thwart the attempt to introduce narcotic pills to the state». "This incident also shows the level of challenge facing the Emirate of Dubai, as it has become a global center of trade and an important link between East and West, which tempts to attempt to exploit this site for illegal commercial purposes."
He pointed out that Dubai Customs is using the latest equipment to detect smuggling attempts, and the detection of drugs of various kinds, "which confirms the soundness of our policy of modernization and continuous development, and strengthens our bet on the human element in our work." Through the field visits to customer service platforms and inspection yards in the customs centers. We work with staff and inspection officers to speed up the transition of our services to the artificial intelligence stage, to consolidate our leading role regionally and internationally as a model to be followed by departments and customs departments across the world. "The new completion of the Jebel Ali Customs and TECOM Customs Center has been achieved thanks to the cooperation and coordination of the Customs Intelligence Department and the great experience gained by the customs inspection officers in inspecting the goods and containers, tracking the suspect materials and controlling them using Advanced inspection devices, customs dogs and mobile customs laboratory.
«Risk Engine»
"The new Captagon smuggling operation has led to the considerable experience we have in managing customs intelligence in terms of risk management through the Intelligent Risk Engine system developed by Dubai Customs to monitor upcoming shipments and classify them according to the degree Risk, "and explained that the shipment containing the narcotics was classified as a suspected shipment of the" risk engine ". The task force, consisting of the Customs Intelligence Directorate and the customs administration of Jebel Ali Customs Centers, took action directly to target the shipment by inspection and inspection, enabling customs inspection officers at the center to detect narcotics and thwart attempts to bring them into the country. Al-Suwaidi said that officers at the Jebel Ali Customs Center and the customs intelligence department had earlier thwarted the attempt to smuggle five million Kptagons into the country.