Clinton-Massie High School and Customs (TV series): Difference between pages
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| related= ''[[Border Security: Australia's Front Line]]''<br>''[[Border Security: Canada's Front Line]]''<br>''[[Homeland Security USA]]''<br>''[[Border Patrol (New Zealand TV series)|Border Security New Zealand]]''<br>''[[UK Border Force (TV series)|UK Border Force]]''
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'''''Customs''''' is a six-part<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rteguide.ie/2008/0606/rte.html |title=RTÉ reveals full summer TV line-up |date=6 June 2008 |accessdate=2008-10-22 |publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003231758/http://www.rteguide.ie/2008/0606/rte.html |archivedate=3 October 2008}}</ref> [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] [[Documentary film|documentary]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0606/1212696234423.html|title=RTÉ summer schedule jewel is Olympic coverage|date=6 June 2008|accessdate=2008-10-22|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = New RTE series to highlight role of customs in war on drugs - Herald.ie|url = http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/new-rte-series-to-highlight-role-of-customs-in-war-on-drugs-27884274.html|accessdate = 14 April 2015|date = 4 September 2008|last = Last|first = Jane}}</ref> [[Television program|television series]] that examines the role of [[customs officer]]s, focusing on their daily lives and their regular encounters with the [[illegal drug trade]] and other difficult situations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvsales.rte.ie/autumn/content/factual/customs.html |title=Customs |accessdate=2008-10-22 |publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann}}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The series began airing on 14 September 2008 and concluded on 19 October 2008.
The series makers accessed customs officers' daily operations, allowing viewers to see the way the authorities deal with the importation of illegal substances.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/listings/rte-1/2008-10-12/19-30/|title=Customs-RTÉ 1-19:30, Sunday 12 October 2008|date=12 October 2008|accessdate=2008-10-22|publisher=Yahoo!}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> The series focuses on customs officers at [[Dublin Airport]] and [[Dublin Port]] as they target [[cigarette smuggling]] and illegal drug trade.
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Six episodes aired between 14 September and 19 October 2008.
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{{Episode list|EpisodeNumber=1|Title=Programme One<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/tv/customs/ep1.html Episode 1]. RTÉ. Accessed 22 October 2008.</ref>|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=y|2008|09|14}}||ShortSummary=At Dublin Airport, undercover officers track a pair of suspected cigarette smugglers, while at Dublin Port Officer Martin Rogers discovers a Colombian Rainbow Boa in luggage.}}
{{Episode list|EpisodeNumber=2|Title=Programme Two<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/tv/customs/ep2.html Episode 2]. RTÉ. Accessed 22 October 2008.</ref>|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=y|2008|09|21}}||ShortSummary=At Dublin Port, Officer Martin Rogers and his team conduct a major search operation on a large cargo ship suspected of carrying illegal goods. Also, Andrea Leamy her sniffer dog Thatcher check over one thousand Welsh rugby fans for drugs when they arrive at Dublin Port. Meanwhile, Officer Robbie's anti-evasion unit searches Cork for illegal fuel users.}}
{{Episode list|EpisodeNumber=3|Title=Programme Three<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/tv/customs/ep3.html Episode 3]. RTÉ. Accessed 22 October 2008.</ref>|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=y|2008|09|28}}||ShortSummary=At Dublin Airport, one passenger is discovered to be carrying hundreds of thousands of Euro in their luggage. Also, with the help of the Airport police and Gardai, customs officers set up a roadblock at the airport's exit, which yields a haul of smuggled cigarettes. In Cork a customs search team seizes 6,000 sumggled cigarettes from a market stallholder. Meanwhile, in Wexford customs officers patrol the coastline searching for bales of cocaine.}}
{{Episode list|EpisodeNumber=4|Title=Programme Four<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/tv/customs/ep4.html Episode 4]. RTÉ. Accessed 22 October 2008.</ref>|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=y|2008|10|05}}||ShortSummary=At Dundalk Bus Station, Andrea Leamy and her sniffer dog Thatcher discover some cannabis. At Dublin airport, with the help of Storm, another sniffer dog, a passenger is discovered to be carrying €10,000 undeclared. Elsewhere in Dublin, two packages of cannabis are discovered at the An Post distribution centre. Meanwhile, at Cork Airport sniffer dogs detect passengers from Amsterdam carrying cannabis.}}
{{Episode list|EpisodeNumber=5|Title=Programme Five<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/tv/customs/ep5.html Episode 5]. RTÉ. Accessed 22 October 2008.</ref>|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=y|2008|10|12}}||ShortSummary=Officer Martin Rogers conducts dawn raids across Dublin searching for smuggled tobacco. At Dublin airport one passenger is discovered to be sumggling €40,000 worth of [[Limovan]] from Spain into Ireland illegally. Also, when officers find cannabis in one man's luggage, he tries to run for the exit but is tackled by Officer Ken.}}
{{Episode list|EpisodeNumber=6|Title=Programme Six<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/tv/customs/ep6.html Episode 6]. RTÉ. Accessed 22 October 2008.</ref>|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=y|2008|10|19}}||ShortSummary=At Dublin Airport, a kilogram of cocaine is discovered in an airmail parcel labelled as a child's toy, while more cannabis is found on passengers from Amsterdam. Meanwhile, Officer Martin Rogers seizes a BMW when he discovers that the [[Vehicle registration tax (Ireland)|VRT]] has not been paid.}}
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== Broadcast ==
The series aired in Ireland on [[RTÉ One]] on Sunday evenings at 7:30pm from 14 September 2008. The series was broadcast in the UK on [[Pick TV]] in 2011.
==References==
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==External links==
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{{RTÉ Factual}}
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[[Category:Irish documentary television series]]
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