In Dover, officers armed with a giant x-ray tackle large-scale smugglers hoping amongst the thousands of trucks flooding through the port each day. Today the x-ray find a mysterious shadow in a truck full of chipboard, and suspect it cold be hiding millions of illegal cigarettes. And in Cornwall, the crew aboard Searcher are looking for smugglers. At first they find nothing but dolphins, but they then spot a lone yacht coming from the Canaries, a frequent transit point for cocaine, and decide to board it and search for drugs. In Gatwick and Bristol Airports in England customs agents check baggage and travellers to uphold allowances and prevent illicit activity and substances from entering the UK. Content owned and licensed from Off The Fence to Little Dot Studios. For all questions, please contact owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com

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