7News Just In7NEWS has an exclusive look at the usually secretive teams hunting corrupt insiders within the aviation industry. They expose drug smugglers with access to secure areas and information at our airports.
For more, James Carmody reports.
For drug smugglers. Getting access to secure areas at an Australian airport is like striking gold. Criminals regularly try to recruit airport and airline workers to help them from the inside organized crime.
If they get a snip that.
There is a vulnerability, they'll look to exploiter.
The Targeted Operations team focuses on preventing and policing against trusted insiders abusing their access.
The theme is set up a containment of this aircraft to ensure that any cargo or baggage that has arrived on the flight isn't able to be tampered with.
Everyone working on and around this aircraft is being closely watched to ensure nothing illegal is taken off the plane or hidden inside it.
The officers inside the hole here checking all of the interior walls and ceilings for anything out of the ordinary, and pretty soon they'll send up the snipper dogs as well.
The dogs can find the smallest traces of drugs. The cabin also thoroughly checked.
So it's things like seats, the areas where they may have touched in the galley area, down in the crew accommodation places like that.
In October, an Aussie flight attendant was caught with four liters of the date rape drug GBL in shampoo bottles, and last year, two baggage handlers at Sydney Airport were arrested sneaking away with one hundred kilograms of cocaine off a flight from South Africa at the border. Everyone's a target, James Carmody, seven News
