Customs officials are capable of identifying drug traffickers from their body language, a senior official at the General Authority of Customs (GAC) has said.
Head of the Main Passenger Terminal Department at Hamad International Airport (HIA) Hassan al-Hajri, told Qatar TV in an interview that the officials are trained to detect passengers carrying drugs in a professional and sophisticated manner.
“HIA Customs plays an important role in combating the ongoing smuggling while keeping pace with new developments in detecting drug trafficking,” he said while explaining that GAC is equipped with the most important customs training centre regionally and globally.
“The centre provides the GAC officials with special training courses to identify and detect drugs and monitor the methods of smuggling. The officials with their expertise and by using advanced devices monitor passengers and luggage to detect violations and smuggling of forbidden objects. They seize prohibited goods and materials. This is achieved through continuous efforts by HIA, which improve and develop new methods to thwart drug trafficking,” al-Hajri said.
The process of raising the efficiency of employees, according to al-Hajri, requires hard and continuous work. This is attained by providing them with the latest training courses to detect smuggling. GAC, al-Hajri added, is making greater efforts and working more to combat and detect smuggling operations by working to use new technologies and new methods to thwart smuggling by checking travellers and goods quickly and smoothly.
Regarding the country's multiple ports, al-Hajri said that GAC spares no effort to provide training, expertise and tools to customs officers at all land, air and sea ports to prevent the entry of any harmful material to the country.
Hassan al-Hajri
