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* Flexible and effective border controls:
- HMRC takes effective action against drug traffickers in tackling the
smuggling of prohibited drugs into the UK. HMRC continue to be the pre-eminent
Frontier agency with responsibility for tackling drugs smuggling. From April
2006 this is now in partnership with the newly formed Serious Organised
Crime Agency (SOCA).
- effective action against other types of organised smugglers, for example
tobacco, seizing 2 billion cigarettes and 160 tonnes of hand rolling tobacco,
breaking up 46 criminal gangs and seizing £6m of assets;
- over three hundred seizures of items from endangered species protected by
CITES legislation, yielding a total of more than 75,000 items contributed
to the preservation of the world's natural environment.
