Grant Bowler
Border Security: Australia's Front Line (2004)
Season 5
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
S5E1 - Episode 501
July 2, 2007, midnight
S5E2 - Episode 502
July 9, 2007, midnight
S5E3 - Episode 503
July 16, 2007, midnight
S5E4 - Episode 504
July 23, 2007, midnight
S5E5 - Episode 5
July 30, 2007, midnight
S5E6 - Episode 6
Aug. 6, 2007, midnight
S5E7 - Episode 7
Aug. 13, 2007, midnight
S5E8 - Episode 8
Aug. 20, 2007, midnight
S5E9 - Episode 9
Aug. 27, 2007, midnight
S5E10 - Episode 10
A passenger breaks the air travel rules that have changed since terrorism by carrying fireworks in their luggage. Immigration interview a New Zealand man who has a criminal record. Customs officers target a multi-million dollar black market trade in Medicare-subsidised prescription drugs.
Sept. 3, 2007, midnight
S5E11 - Episode 11
An officer's search for the right answers leads to a verbal stoush in Customs. Immigration officers interview an Irish bricklayer that they suspect is double-dipping on his working holiday visa. A passenger's bad behaviour has everyone on edge in Quarantine.
Sept. 10, 2007, midnight
S5E12 - Episode 12
A passenger's nervous behaviour has everyone in Customs on edge. Off the central Queensland coast, Customs search an enormous cargo ship where every nook and cranny is a possible hiding place. A passenger's startling comment makes Customs officers concerned that his life may be in danger.
Sept. 17, 2007, midnight
S5E13 - Episode 13
A phone call could change the fate of a passenger who is desperate to stay in Australia. Customs officers investigate a suspicious package from India. Unusual behaviour from a Chinese student in Melbourne attracts the attention of Customs.
Sept. 24, 2007, midnight
S5E14 - Episode 14
Unusual behaviour from a passenger leads Customs to wonder if he is playing games. Immigration compliance officers face some unexpected hurdles in the search for an illegal worker hiding in a market garden in western Sydney. A passenger is suspected by officers to be carrying drugs, but the situation takes a dramatic turn.
Oct. 1, 2007, midnight
S5E15 - Episode 15
Customs officers suspect that two female passengers are trying to hide something. A passenger who failed to declare some tapa mats gets upset over his treatment in Quarantine. Customs officers board a mystery ship after it fails to respond to their radio calls.
Oct. 8, 2007, midnight
S5E16 - Episode 16
A Colombian dance instructor may have stepped out of line when Customs officers find heroin readings on samples from his bags. Quarantine officers at the Internation Mail Handling Unit receive a box that smells so foul that it gives them a headache. Immigration compliance officers search a western Sydney warehouse, but obstructions could help a Filipino man they suspect of being an illegal immigrant to get away.
Oct. 15, 2007, midnight
S5E17 - Episode 17
A Californian passenger is unhappy about being questioned by Customs. A Customs officer has suspicions about a parcel that has arrived at the International Mail Handling Unit from Peru. A student returning from China tries to con Quarantine by smuggling bags of food and then "declaring" it on a second passenger card.
Oct. 22, 2007, midnight
S5E18 - Episode 18
Customs suspect that a Malaysian passenger that is hiding something may not be working alone. Some filthy clothes could hold the key to a major Customs investigation. A suspected illegal non-citizen keeps Immigration compliance officers on their toes during a raid at a steel fabrication plant in outer western Sydney.
Oct. 29, 2007, midnight
S5E19 - Episode 19
Immigration interviews a Phillippine tourist who has a stash of male student identity cards and some undeclared medication. In Brisbane, when a Lebanese passenger gets upset after Quarantine seizes some food that she has brought into the country as gifts for her family, her son in law makes a political issue out of it. In Sydney, a passenger returning from a round-the-world trip catches the attention of Customs officers.
Nov. 5, 2007, midnight
S5E20 - Episode 20
Looks back at some emotional and nervous passengers that Customs, Immigration and Quarantine have interviewed.
Nov. 12, 2007, midnight
S5E21 - Episode 21
Looks back at some memorable characters encountered by Customs, Immigration and Quarantine officers and their attempts to enter Australia.
Nov. 19, 2007, midnight
S5E22 - Episode 22
Customs officers are horrified by the mysterious contents of an unidentified bag. The Navy, Department of Fisheries and Customs combine in a big operation to stop illegal fishing boats poaching in Australia's rich northern waters. Customs officers find narcotics elaborately concealed inside two printer cartridges.
Nov. 26, 2007, 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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