About this season
Border Patrol is a New Zealand reality television series, focusing on the Customs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and the New Zealand Immigration Service. It is narrated by Tim Balme. They are checking through packages, travelers and goods to find if they try to smugle prohibited or undeclared goods. They have trained staff, dogs and technology to find this out.
Episodes (7)
1. Heart Patient
Aired 20 April 2015
Customs put Operation Bread to the test to see how the recently trained cash detecting dogs fare, and an oversized package from South Africa must be checked for endangered species.
2. 50k Meth Man
Aired 27 April 2015
Caught at the border, a drug smuggler with a large package of the drug P; a fish smuggler with dripping wet pockets; and an unemployed woman's money making scheme goes wrong.
3. Perfume Eu Tonga
Aired 4 May 2015
A Tongan man who arrives from the US with a large quantity of undeclared perfume bottles runs into trouble over Intellectual property rights.
4. Deported Tour Guide
Aired 11 May 2015
Customs cash dog Roxy pulls aside a tour group who she detects are carrying large sums of cash; and some Aussie promo girls arrive in Queenstown with containers full of unidentified white powders.
5. Tall Ships
Aired 18 May 2015
Large hauls of high risk foodstuffs are located on regatta of Tall Ships at Opua wharf, and cash dog Roxy strikes again.
6. Undies Hash
Aired 25 May 2015
A Brazilian man caught at the border with drugs in his undies, illegal weapons are stopped at both the airport and the mail centre, and containers of Formula One cars need to pass biosecurity checks.
7. Forgotten MDMA Pills
Aired 1 June 2015
A Chinese tourist expounds her views on New Zealand after being caught bringing in a biosecurity threat, and 18 race horses are unloaded on the Tarmac and checked for equine viruses.