Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers

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  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5266
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The signing of the Schengen treaty in 1995 has had an impact on trans-border mobility. As customs posts disappeared and traffic increased, the work of custom officer has fundamentally changed.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    © Jc Milhet
    5266
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The signing of the Schengen treaty in 1995 has had an impact on trans-border mobility. As customs posts disappeared and traffic increased, the work of custom officer has fundamentally changed.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5267
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Unlike police officers, customs officers are empowered to search or even strip-search the people they check. A necessary power for fighting against lightweight drug smuggling (cocaine, heroin…), and other kinds of smuggling.
    A new way of smuggling: dirty money used to finance criminality, notably terrorist organisations, is often hidden in light vehicles.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet
    5267
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Unlike police officers, customs officers are empowered to search or even strip-search the people they check. A necessary power for fighting against lightweight drug smuggling (cocaine, heroin…), and other kinds of smuggling.
    A new way of smuggling: dirty money used to finance criminality, notably terrorist organisations, is often hidden in light vehicles.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5268
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Unlike police officers, customs officers are empowered to search or even strip-search the people they check. A necessary power for fighting against lightweight drug smuggling (cocaine, heroin…), and other kinds of smuggling.

    A new way of smuggling: dirty money used to finance criminality, notably terrorist organisations, is often hidden in light vehicles.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet
    5268
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Unlike police officers, customs officers are empowered to search or even strip-search the people they check. A necessary power for fighting against lightweight drug smuggling (cocaine, heroin…), and other kinds of smuggling.

    A new way of smuggling: dirty money used to finance criminality, notably terrorist organisations, is often hidden in light vehicles.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5269
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    A new way of smuggling: dirty money used to finance criminality, notably terrorist organisations, is often hidden in light vehicles.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet
    5269
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    A new way of smuggling: dirty money used to finance criminality, notably terrorist organisations, is often hidden in light vehicles.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5270
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Since customs posts disappeared, custom officers who are now more mobile may carry out random checks.
    Checks are carried out night and day, Le Perthus.
    © Jc Milhet
    5270
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Since customs posts disappeared, custom officers who are now more mobile may carry out random checks.
    Checks are carried out night and day, Le Perthus.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5271
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    At Le Perthus - Els Limits border area, abandoned guard posts can be seen on the side of the road. Many people believe that they are allowed to carry goods without any restriction…

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Checks are carried out night and day, Le Perthus.
    © Jc Milhet
    5271
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    At Le Perthus - Els Limits border area, abandoned guard posts can be seen on the side of the road. Many people believe that they are allowed to carry goods without any restriction…

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Checks are carried out night and day, Le Perthus.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
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    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Others seek even more inventive hiding places such as double petrol tanks. Custom officers must play hide and seek and match the ingenuity of the smugglers.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Checks are carried out night and day, Le Perthus.
    © Jc Milhet
    5272
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Others seek even more inventive hiding places such as double petrol tanks. Custom officers must play hide and seek and match the ingenuity of the smugglers.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Checks are carried out night and day, Le Perthus.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5273
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    2 grams of heroin and 10 grams of cannabis seized at Cerbère station. The trivialisation of consumption and its growth raises the question of increasing the number of employees in order to respond to the increase in trafficking or that of decriminalisation.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Cerbère railway station and a heroin addict, Drugs.
    © Jc Milhet
    5273
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    2 grams of heroin and 10 grams of cannabis seized at Cerbère station. The trivialisation of consumption and its growth raises the question of increasing the number of employees in order to respond to the increase in trafficking or that of decriminalisation.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Cerbère railway station and a heroin addict, Drugs.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5274
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    2 grams of heroin and 10 grams of cannabis seized at Cerbère station.
    The trivialisation of consumption and its growth raises the question of increasing the number of employees in order to respond to the increase in trafficking or that of decriminalisation.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Cerbère railway station and a heroin addict, Drugs.
    © Jc Milhet
    5274
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    2 grams of heroin and 10 grams of cannabis seized at Cerbère station.
    The trivialisation of consumption and its growth raises the question of increasing the number of employees in order to respond to the increase in trafficking or that of decriminalisation.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Cerbère railway station and a heroin addict, Drugs.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5275
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    2 grams of heroin and 10 grams of cannabis seized at Cerbère station.
    The trivialisation of consumption and its growth raises the question of increasing the number of employees in order to respond to the increase in trafficking or that of decriminalisation.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Cerbère railway station and a heroin addict, Drugs.
    © Jc Milhet
    5275
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    2 grams of heroin and 10 grams of cannabis seized at Cerbère station.
    The trivialisation of consumption and its growth raises the question of increasing the number of employees in order to respond to the increase in trafficking or that of decriminalisation.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Cerbère railway station and a heroin addict, Drugs.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5276
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    In line with the ever changing nature of their job, custom officers are trained in effective combat techniques and automatic arms to defend themselves against armed assaults.
    New problems, new solutions.
    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Training and exercising, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet
    5276
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    In line with the ever changing nature of their job, custom officers are trained in effective combat techniques and automatic arms to defend themselves against armed assaults.
    New problems, new solutions.
    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Training and exercising, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5277
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The custom house in Porta is the only border house still existing in France since the opening of the borders.
    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Custom house in Porta, Porté Puymorens, border between France and Andorra.
    © Jc Milhet
    5277
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The custom house in Porta is the only border house still existing in France since the opening of the borders.
    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Custom house in Porta, Porté Puymorens, border between France and Andorra.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5278
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    In line with the ever changing nature of their job, custom officers are trained in effective combat techniques and automatic arms to defend themselves against armed assaults.
    New problems, new solutions.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Training and exercising, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet
    5278
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    In line with the ever changing nature of their job, custom officers are trained in effective combat techniques and automatic arms to defend themselves against armed assaults.
    New problems, new solutions.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Training and exercising, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5279
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    In line with the ever changing nature of their job, custom officers are trained in effective combat techniques and automatic arms to defend themselves against armed assaults.
    New problems, new solutions.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Training and exercising, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet
    5279
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    In line with the ever changing nature of their job, custom officers are trained in effective combat techniques and automatic arms to defend themselves against armed assaults.
    New problems, new solutions.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
    Training and exercising, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5280
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The same problems are encountered on land and sea. Custom officers therefore work with coastguards who control pleasure sailors and sea professionals.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet
    5280
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The same problems are encountered on land and sea. Custom officers therefore work with coastguards who control pleasure sailors and sea professionals.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5281
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    When the boat is berthed, coast guards take the opportunity to maintain their boat and equipment, or review the basic rules of weapons handling in a confined space…

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet
    5281
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    When the boat is berthed, coast guards take the opportunity to maintain their boat and equipment, or review the basic rules of weapons handling in a confined space…

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5282
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The same problems are encountered on land and sea. Custom officers therefore work with coastguards who control pleasure sailors and sea professionals.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet
    5282
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The same problems are encountered on land and sea. Custom officers therefore work with coastguards who control pleasure sailors and sea professionals.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5283
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Aboard the Lady Rose, a Panamanian cargo ship carrying fruit from Dakar to Port-Vendres. Members of the BGC search crew cabins while the captain watches them.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet
    5283
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Aboard the Lady Rose, a Panamanian cargo ship carrying fruit from Dakar to Port-Vendres. Members of the BGC search crew cabins while the captain watches them.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5284
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Aboard the Lady Rose, a Panamanian cargo ship carrying fruit from Dakar to Port-Vendres. Members of the BGC search crew cabins while the captain watches them.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet
    5284
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Aboard the Lady Rose, a Panamanian cargo ship carrying fruit from Dakar to Port-Vendres. Members of the BGC search crew cabins while the captain watches them.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5285
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Aboard the Lady Rose, a Panamanian cargo ship carrying fruit from Dakar to Port-Vendres. Members of the BGC search crew cabins while the captain watches them.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet
    5285
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Aboard the Lady Rose, a Panamanian cargo ship carrying fruit from Dakar to Port-Vendres. Members of the BGC search crew cabins while the captain watches them.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5286
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Aboard the Lady Rose, a Panamanian cargo ship carrying fruit from Dakar to Port-Vendres. Members of the BGC search crew cabins while the captain watches them.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet
    5286
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Aboard the Lady Rose, a Panamanian cargo ship carrying fruit from Dakar to Port-Vendres. Members of the BGC search crew cabins while the captain watches them.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5287
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Besides fraud control, the coastguard Brigade is also qualified for rescuing ships in distress. That’s why tonight, they will stay on their docked boat waiting for instructions.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet
    5287
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Besides fraud control, the coastguard Brigade is also qualified for rescuing ships in distress. That’s why tonight, they will stay on their docked boat waiting for instructions.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5289
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Besides fraud control, the coastguard Brigade is also qualified for rescuing ships in distress. That’s why tonight, they will stay on their docked boat waiting for instructions.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet
    5289
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Besides fraud control, the coastguard Brigade is also qualified for rescuing ships in distress. That’s why tonight, they will stay on their docked boat waiting for instructions.

    A picture by Jc Milhet from his photo feature on the coastguard Brigade in Port-Vendres. (©2018)
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5288
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Located on the border between France and Andorra, the post in Porta is open 24 hours a day throughout the year as Andorra has not signed the Schengen Agreement.
    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs post in Porta, Porté Puymorens, Border between France and Andorra.
    © Jc Milhet
    5288
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Located on the border between France and Andorra, the post in Porta is open 24 hours a day throughout the year as Andorra has not signed the Schengen Agreement.
    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs post in Porta, Porté Puymorens, Border between France and Andorra.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5290
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The main traffic in Porta is tobacco which is two and a half times less expensive in Andorra than it is in France. 10 tons of tobacco are seized each year.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs post in Porta, Porté Puymorens, Border between France and Andorra.
    © Jc Milhet
    5290
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The main traffic in Porta is tobacco which is two and a half times less expensive in Andorra than it is in France. 10 tons of tobacco are seized each year.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs post in Porta, Porté Puymorens, Border between France and Andorra.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5291
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The main traffic in Porta is tobacco which is two and a half times less expensive in Andorra than it is in France. 10 tons of tobacco are seized each year.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs post in Porta, Porté Puymorens, Border between France and Andorra.
    © Jc Milhet
    5291
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    The main traffic in Porta is tobacco which is two and a half times less expensive in Andorra than it is in France. 10 tons of tobacco are seized each year.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs post in Porta, Porté Puymorens, Border between France and Andorra.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5292
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Even though they usually drive across the border, many smugglers think nothing of walking for hours in the snow and cold to avoid the custom posts. The brigade in Bourg-Madame watches carefully.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs post in Porta, Porté Puymorens, Border between France and Andorra.
    © Jc Milhet
    5292
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Even though they usually drive across the border, many smugglers think nothing of walking for hours in the snow and cold to avoid the custom posts. The brigade in Bourg-Madame watches carefully.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs post in Porta, Porté Puymorens, Border between France and Andorra.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5293
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Each border has its own problems. Every day, nearly 16 000 trucks drive across the “virtual lines” between France and Spain.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet
    5293
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Each border has its own problems. Every day, nearly 16 000 trucks drive across the “virtual lines” between France and Spain.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5294
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    There is a great deal of smuggling on this road: undeclared money, counterfeit (car parts, clothes...) and above all drugs. Dog handlers are there to support the physical searches.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet
    5294
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    There is a great deal of smuggling on this road: undeclared money, counterfeit (car parts, clothes...) and above all drugs. Dog handlers are there to support the physical searches.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet

     

  • Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    5295
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Due to the large amount of traffic, custom officers must be persistent. Since they can’t check every truck, it takes a trained eye to catch the right lorry.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet
    5295
    Gabelous - French Cutoms Officers
    Due to the large amount of traffic, custom officers must be persistent. Since they can’t check every truck, it takes a trained eye to catch the right lorry.

    French Customs at the border in the Pyrénées-Orientales
    Customs controls, Motorway, Le Boulou.
    © Jc Milhet