H.M. Customs and Revenue
A rather interesting video series I have been watching about H.M. Customs and Revenue in the U.K.
You simply would not believe the things which people try to smuggle into and out of the U.K. One man who flew into Gatwick airport had 175 cartons of cigarettes. That is a total of 35,000 cigarettes.
A grandmother coming back from Jamaica, had 530 grams of cocaine hidden in the screen of her laptop.
It seems that Customs and Revenue is also greatly concerned with what is LEAVING the country: large amounts of cash, for example. they have dogs which are well trained to sniff out paper money. heck, I didn't know that that was even possible.
several people lost all of stacks of money prior to leaving the U.K.
several people had drugs hidden inside the soles of their shoes and one fellow had drugs hidden inside baseballs.
You will simply not believe this but one woman had attempted to smuggle in 10 sawed-off shotguns. And, she looked just like the nice lady from next door.
Those H.M. agents are one heck of a lot smarter than the smugglers. Interesting TV show.