Fight against contraband: 79 monitoring stations along the border customs
The Algerian customs plan to open 79 monitoring stations along the customs border east and west to reinforce the fight against smuggling, including drug trafficking, Mohamed Abdou Bouderbala, Director General of Customs told APS on Saturday.
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These positions, which have already been opened, are provided through the strengthening of border controls between Algeria and neighboring countries, in a plan to fight against smuggling, said Bouderbala, the day after his visit to Tlemcen where he inaugurated four monitoring stations.
The selected operation by the government, is a first of its kind that will enable Algeria to have the first monitoring points throughout its 6,000 kilometers of land borders.
So far Algeria has only had traditional customs points of entry and departure of passengers and goods. According Bouderbala, this new organization that Customs are putting in place essentially aims to cope with the flow of drugs through the Algerian borders.
"The phenomenon has become dangerous, drugs can destroy a country and a whole economy. Our action is beneficial, it is our responsibility to end this traffic," he says.
The wilaya of Tlemcen and Tebessa, will each with 23 positions, given the extent of active smuggling in the border areas of the east and west.
The redeployment of the customs service began last Thursday with the establishment of four monitoring stations in Tlemcen, on the border between Algeria and Morocco, while four more are being launched, according Bouderbala.
Studies of achieving other items prescribed in Tlemcen, border area known for its drug trafficking, were finalized and construction will soon be launched. The construction of each monitoring station will cost 70 million dinars, at a cost of more than 5 billion AD for all items covered under this operation.
These monitoring centers will be built elevated, on hills, for example, the location that allow Customs to scan by monitoring tools a border area. Asked about the procedure of these checkpoints, Bouderbala explained that positions were "viable", each covering a border area.
To better coordinate monitoring with the groupings of border guards (GGF), each station will be built between two centers of GGF, so to fill the corridors of the smugglers, according to the first head of Customs.
The implementation of these positions in places of passage of traffickers will have continuous monitoring, whereas before the batch control ensured, providing smugglers crossing gaps during times of withdrawal of customs services, explains Bouderbala.
The ability of these posts contain the smugglers trafficking, Bouderbala felt that they were going to contain it while acknowledging their failure to stop him.
"We will have a properly supervised border and not a boundary sieve," he said.
The selected operation by the government, is a first of its kind that will enable Algeria to have the first monitoring points throughout its 6,000 kilometers of land borders.
So far Algeria has only had traditional customs points of entry and departure of passengers and goods. According Bouderbala, this new organization that Customs are putting in place essentially aims to cope with the flow of drugs through the Algerian borders.
"The phenomenon has become dangerous, drugs can destroy a country and a whole economy. Our action is beneficial, it is our responsibility to end this traffic," he says.
The wilaya of Tlemcen and Tebessa, will each with 23 positions, given the extent of active smuggling in the border areas of the east and west.
The redeployment of the customs service began last Thursday with the establishment of four monitoring stations in Tlemcen, on the border between Algeria and Morocco, while four more are being launched, according Bouderbala.
Studies of achieving other items prescribed in Tlemcen, border area known for its drug trafficking, were finalized and construction will soon be launched. The construction of each monitoring station will cost 70 million dinars, at a cost of more than 5 billion AD for all items covered under this operation.
These monitoring centers will be built elevated, on hills, for example, the location that allow Customs to scan by monitoring tools a border area. Asked about the procedure of these checkpoints, Bouderbala explained that positions were "viable", each covering a border area.
To better coordinate monitoring with the groupings of border guards (GGF), each station will be built between two centers of GGF, so to fill the corridors of the smugglers, according to the first head of Customs.
The implementation of these positions in places of passage of traffickers will have continuous monitoring, whereas before the batch control ensured, providing smugglers crossing gaps during times of withdrawal of customs services, explains Bouderbala.
The ability of these posts contain the smugglers trafficking, Bouderbala felt that they were going to contain it while acknowledging their failure to stop him.
"We will have a properly supervised border and not a boundary sieve," he said.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Fight-against-c...