Smugglers

First of a two-part documentary exposing the work of organised crime gangs and the average holiday-maker as they try to beat UK border controls and smuggle drugs and tobacco into the country. The programme reveals the case of a 62-year-old retired taxi driver from Birmingham caught with 5kg of cocaine concealed behind the engine of his car, and follows a cutter crew from the UK Border Agency as it stops a container ship suspected of carrying a large consignment of narcotics.

The concluding part of the documentary follows the UK Border Agency as it seizes a huge consignment of drugs hidden in a lorry at Harwich port. A man is caught smuggling £500,000 worth of high-purity cocaine into the country, claiming he was paid just £900 to act as a courier, while cutter officers stop and search a yacht from the Caribbean, but come away empty-handed.