Grant Bowler
Border Security: Australia's Front Line (2004)
Season 14
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.
Released Oct. 13, 2004
Episode 29 min
14+
Genres: Crime, Documentary, Drama, Reality
Keywords: imdb.contraband, imdb.regulation, imdb.customs-officer, imdb.country-in-title, imdb.smuggling, imdb.criminal, imdb.customs + 6 more, imdb.border, imdb.airport, imdb.arrest, imdb.border-control, imdb.border-guard, imdb.observational-documentary
Watch Providers: Tubi TV, fuboTV, Spectrum On Demand, National Geographic, YouTube TV
Network: Seven
S14E1 - Episode 1
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.
July 3, 2019, midnight
S14E2 - Episode 2
A nervous man has brought a bag of tea and coffee which turns out to be much more than a beverage. A couple returning to Australia have a very creepy collection they've brought home with them.
July 10, 2019, midnight
S14E3 - Episode 3
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.
July 17, 2019, midnight
S14E4 - Episode 4
Go behind the scenes of Australia's customs, quarantine and immigration departments.
July 24, 2019, midnight
S14E5 - Episode 5
Officers are concerned a passenger may be up to a lot more than he's letting on. A container from China that will blow the lid off a massive criminal syndicate. Also, a huge threat to our biosecurity.
July 31, 2019, midnight
S14E6 - Episode 6
Go behind the scenes of Australia's customs, quarantine and immigration departments.
Aug. 7, 2019, midnight
S14E7 - Episode 7
A Brazilian woman arriving from New Zealand is caught with what looks like an implement to snort cocaine. Border Force execute a warrant in search of a Sri Lankan man they think is here illegally.
Aug. 14, 2019, midnight
S14E8 - Episode 8
A convicted drug smuggler returns to Australia for the first time since his arrest 15 years ago. The special investigations unit execute a dramatic raid on a storage facility.
Aug. 21, 2019, midnight
S14E9 - Episode 9
An American man makes a shocking confession in one of Borders most dramatic busts. A strange package from Russia is found to contain an extremely rare and unusual item.
Aug. 28, 2019, midnight
S14E10 - Episode 10
When a Chinese man is reluctant to answer officer's questions, they soon realise he's covering for a partner in crime. What a man has hidden in his bag could have a devastating effect on biosecurity.
Sept. 4, 2019, midnight
S14E11 - Episode 11
Officers want to know the reason for a French traveller's extremely nervous behaviour. Biosecurity officers find a disgusting concealment in the luggage of a woman arriving from Vietnam.
Sept. 11, 2019, midnight
S14E12 - Episode 12
A passenger has declared only tobacco but it's clear straight away he isn't telling the whole truth. Border Force officers at the Sydney Mail Centre make an interesting find inside hydraulic pumps.
Sept. 18, 2019, midnight
S14E13 - Episode 13
Biosecurity stop a woman entering the country with some extremely dangerous and prohibited goods. A Chinese teacher says he is here for an 11 day holiday but his suitcase is void of clothing.
Sept. 25, 2019, midnight
S14E14 - Episode 14
Biosecurity dog Cody makes a fishy discovery in the bags of a mother daughter couple returning from Vietnam. An x-ray image on a package from Tanzania shows something that looks like a head.
Oct. 2, 2019, midnight
S14E15 - Episode 15
When officers stop a woman from Canada, they suspect she's not here for business as she claims. This investigation unravels one of the most elaborate concealments ever seen at the Border.
Oct. 9, 2019, midnight
Network: Seven
Episode Runtime: 29 min.
Season Runtime: 5971 min.
Released: Oct. 13, 2004
Last Air Date: Nov. 26, 2023, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR / 14+
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