It has enabled them to tighten their collective controls by pooling information in a single computer and by getting their customs police to co-operate.
To confuse things, some poorly made counterfeits are made illegally in Cuba itself and sold to tourists (many of whom have their dud purchases taken away by customs police at the airport).
Customs and police officers searched the units in the Jonesborough area on Wednesday morning.
At the border point, known as Tatopani, customs and police officials refused to make any official comment.
Hundreds of senior members of the regional political establishment were implicated in the case, including customs, police and government officials.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will police the no-fly zone that already exists over the capital, and provide dogs that can sniff out explosives.
The investigation involved the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Customs officials, New South Wales Police and the Australian Crime Commission.
Or the first joint police-customs unit, painstakingly put together in the late 1980s but also short-lived?
The agency pursues the cases it receives from police, customs and other agencies through the civil courts.
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The operation involved police, Customs and Excise officials and enforcement staff from the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA).
Police and customs officers from Northern Ireland have taken part in a major cross-border operation against fuel laundering and organised crime.
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The combined efforts of police, customs officers and informers lead to the seizure of perhaps 30% of the world's heroin and cocaine output.
Britain's home secretary, Jack Straw, points out that during 1996 and 1997, phone taps by police and customs led to 1, 200 arrests, and the seizure of nearly three tonnes of Class A drugs, such as heroin and cocaine.
Interpol's newly created Pharmaceutical Crime Program aims to help health agencies, police and customs bureaus in countries around the globe stem the supply of bogus brand-name and generic medicines, as well as identify and dismantle the organized crime rings distributing them.
Although ARA has certainly spent much of its time on high-profile cases referred by prosecutors, police and customs, it has also worked to tackle street-level criminals - from drug dealers and gang members to sellers of counterfeit goods and benefit cheats, in concert with local authorities.
Observers agree that global partnerships between police agents, customs agencies and the pharmaceutical industry need to be formed in order to successfully combat the problem.
Other the past few weeks MPs have been hearing evidence from police officers, customs officials and representatives of the tobacco and fuel industry on the extent of smuggling in Northern Ireland.
Think of a border protection agency that could use iris recognition at an airport's customs checkpoint, or a police or law enforcement agency that needs to verify identities on the go and can't afford large, cumbersome hardware to do so.
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Among its members are Customs and Excise representatives, the police, the NIO, Home Office and the Inland Revenue.
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On Friday, New York police picked up the painting at customs and returned the artwork to the gallery, Lt.
On 3 May, Cumbria Police, working alongside HM Revenue and Customs, stopped the vehicle at Harwich Docks.
In the state's north-west, where most of Arkansas's Latinos live, four police agencies have signed up with the customs and immigration agency to enforce immigration law more efficiently.
In the print-shop case, the Westminster police and the U.S. Customs Service arrested 15 men and seized an industrial printing press, a shrink-wrap machine and crate upon crate of illegitimate Windows 95 documentation.
Mr Rowe also called on Home Secretary Jack Straw to overhaul the police complaints system and said he should replace the current "pals investigating pals" system with one in which truly independent agencies - such as Customs or the DSS - investigate complaints about the police.
Agencies participating in the drill also included the FBI, Customs and Border Patrol, the Port of Houston Authority and local police.
The man had successfully cleared the customs and immigration and a search of his bags did not yield anything, police said.
Mr Kirkham said front-line police were exasperated by the ease with which stun guns made it past customs.
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Police, the security services, the new National Crime Agency and HM Revenue and Customs would be able to access the data, but the draft Communications Data Bill also gives the Home Secretary the power to extend access to others, such as the UK Border Agency.
We'll want the information that they pull in, but we'll want this new department to pull in information from the INS, from Customs, from the Coast Guard, from the drug enforcement authorities, from the state and local police.
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