Customs - At a Glance
In 2008-09
Customs will have:
- around 1,270 staff
- 16 onshore, and 5 offshore, locations
- an operating budget of $125 million
- 1 inshore patrol craft
- 140 vehicles in the fleet (including 4 mobile x-ray units)
Customs expects to:
- process around 10 million air and marine passengers and crew arriving or departing
- meet and inspect about 5,000 large marine craft and 1,500 small marine craft
- screen up to 50 million import transactions for compliance
- screen up to 30 million export transactions for compliance
- collect around $10.2 billion Crown Revenue (15% of total government revenue)
- commence around 1,500 investigation cases
- deal with approximately 120,000 general inquiries
- co-ordinate (through the National Maritime Co-ordination Centre) the surveillance of 15,000 km of coastline.
In 2007/08 Customs
- seized 628 kilograms of precursors (in 569 interceptions)
- made over 800 interceptions of illicit drugs (including 32 litres of liquid methamphetamine - worth around $35 million and 4 kilos of methamphetamine powder – worth around $3.9 million)
- opened 830 investigation files as a result of breaches in Intellectual Property Rights (including various files in relation to the importation of over 5,500 fake Ab King Pro exercise machines)
- made over 120 interceptions of objectionable material • scored highly in a stakeholder survey for our core values of commitment, integrity and respect