Border Security: Australia's Front Line
2004
📺 22 Seasons
🎬 248 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
DocumentaryCrimeDramaReality
Border Security: Australia's Front Line is an Australian television program that airs on the Seven Network. The show follows the work of officers of Australian Customs and Border Protection, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as they enforce Australian customs, quarantine, immigration and finance laws.
Most of the programme is filmed at Sydney and Melbourne airports. Occasionally, the program features other locations such as Brisbane Airport, Perth Airport, seaports, international mail centres, raids on workplaces suspected of employing persons contrary to the restrictions of their visa or immigrant status and the work of Customs vessels and aircraft in the waters of Northern Australia.
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Seasons
Season 1
Go behind-the-scenes of our Immigration, Customs and Quarantine departments.
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Customs are faced with a challenge when they try to find out what a passenger with some unusual travel movements is concealing. Immigration officers try to find out the truth from workers who have a lot to hide during a factory compliance raid in Western Sydney. Two Canadian passengers wanting to have some fun and indulge in a little partying struggle to make it through Quarantine.
Season 7
A sweet-sounding French student is suspected by Customs to be concealing drugs. A Malaysian passenger is betrayed by his wife in Immigration. Customs search the contents of a couple of plastic bottles with something concealed in them.
Season 8
Unusual clues could mean there's trouble ahead for an American designer. Officers have serious questions for a very flamboyant traveller. And a passenger tries to start a food fight.
Season 9
A Singaporean passenger arrives for a holiday, but Customs officers are more interested in the declared food that he has brought with him. A dawn raid by Immigration takes a few people by surprise. A woman returning from Italy has to get past Quarantine officers before she can meet her husband.
Season 10
A persistent caller to a mobile phone could help Customs find out the real reason why a passenger travelled to Vietnam. Quarantine need to know what a Sri Lankan passenger is carrying. Some explosive allegations about a criminal background could send a Latvian passenger home.
Season 11
A Nigerian woman claims to be a fashion designer, but Customs officers don't think her story measures up. A sudden memory lapse could be a problem for a Polish passenger who has just travelled for 23 hours to visit his girlfriend. A mysterious box has Quarantine officers digging for answers.
Season 12
Season 13
An American college student might be in the country hopingf or a good time but there is strong evidence in his bags that this isn't the case. A young mother attempts to bluff her way past officers but they are onto her surprising secret.
Season 14
A young designer from LA arrives with a suspicious bag. Biosecurity officers uncover a huge quantity of high risk items in the luggage of a Chinese student.
Season 17
A Vietnamese student tells officers that someone else packed his suitcase, but border force will sniff anything he might be hiding. An Australian resident has some seriously leaky luggage. Biosecurity are not the only ones upset by what's inside. A cheeky Irish backpacker has taken up some inappropriate work, what officers find might wipe the smile off his face.
Season 18
A nervous passenger gets the attention of officers when a vile stench is detected in his luggage. A Chinese couple try to blame their children for bringing a major biosecurity risk.
Season 19
Officers come across a box from Malaysia that seems a little unusual and reveals something frightening. Officer Shane investigates a delivery of chip packets that contain something less than savoury.
Season 20
Season 21
Officers are concerned by a passenger's bizarre behaviour when traces of a drug known as 'Charlie Sheen' are found. A gruesome find in the mail room may be linked to witchcraft. Immigration suspect a baby-faced tourist may be an imposter.
Season 22
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