Nadi Airport now has state of the art x-ray system to combat smuggling of contraband

The Nadi International Airport now has a state of the art Pallet X‑Ray system to combat illegal smuggling of drugs, explosive products and other items that pose a direct threat to our country.

The half a million‑dollar investment in the X‑ray inspection system which was launched today comes from the most advanced and best proven CX product platform, and fully inherits and shares improved image quality with a variety of professional image enhancement processing functions, friendly user interface, and intelligent networking capabilities and applications.

Fiji Revenue and Customs Service Chief Executive Officer Visvanath Das said that the pallet X‑ray scanner is capable of colour coding organic, inorganic and a mixture of materials with different effective atomic numbers for better identification of objects.

Explosives and narcotics automatic detection and suspect organic materials highlight are also available to aid x‑ray screening.

Das says assets to support their staff include their Detector Dog Unit at Nadi, drug detection equipment and X‑ray equipment which is used for in‑depth screening of baggage, cargo and mail.

Das also stresses that the sale of counterfeit goods and medicines has become an important profit‑machine for transnational crime syndicates, accounting for about one‑third of the value of transnational crime flows.