A Study of Improvement to Non-instrumental Customs Inspections for drugs

• Main Authors: Chang, Wing-Hong, 程文宏
• Other Authors: Chang, Ki-Yin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jkx6vt

碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 商船學系 === 104 === In recent years, Taiwan has become a popular destination for the drugs distributed in Southeast Asia. Drugs are smuggled in countless ways, such as drugs packed in the checked baggage, containers, automobiles and express parcels, to name just a few. There are so many ways to smuggle drugs that Taiwan’s reconnaissance officers are beset with difficulties when they investigate the drug-smuggling cases. In Taiwan, computer expert system is employed in the cargo clearance procedure to screen out the suspicious goods. Nevertheless, countless goods still have to be inspected by hand. Inadvertently, Taiwan’s customs have a number of problems such as reconnaissance officers’ job rotation system, downsizing policy and declining annual budgets. As a result, reconnaissance officers have hard time dealing with the suspicious drug-smuggling cases. With the limited budgets, manpower and instruments, it is an important task to select the object of reconnaissance effectively. This study surveyed the drugs seized by the customs in 2013~2015, sorting out the data related to drug-smuggling cases, such as the smugglers’ delivery methods as well as using and not using instruments to investigate drug-smuggling cases. Next, case comparative analysis method and risk assessment theory were employed for quantitative analysis and thus a risk assessment matrix table was constructed. Then, the reconnaissance officers who had used the risk assessment matrix table were interviewed, and with the results acquired from the interviews, the risk assessment matrix table was modified in an attempt to help customs staffs improve their reconnaissance efficacy through the innovative and effective cargo risk assessment mechanism. This study employed risk assessment theory as one of the research methods, serving as a reasonable mathematical analysis method to sort out the goods under inspection and thereby improve the accuracy of the risk assessment matrix table. The risk assessment matrix table implemented by this study aims to assess and analyze the risks associated with all imported goods at the time that the Customs Administration is short of manpower. If a piece of goods under inspection reveals the high risk criteria implemented by this study, this piece of goods has a good chance to be inspected by the reconnaissance officers and drugs are very likely to be found and seized. Thus, drugs are intercepted by the customs.