Bordeaux: record number of seizures for customs in 2022

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Overseen by the interregional customs department based on Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux, the customs services of New Aquitaine have achieved an excellent result for 2022. On the cocaine side, for example, the quantities intercepted are historic: 709 kilos in all, including a huge catch. of 578 kilos by the Arcachon brigade and 22 Guyanese mules arrested.

Another feat: 4.46 million criminal assets were confiscated, an increase of 148% compared to the 2021 balance sheet. Without setting a new record, the action against cannabis trafficking is just as good: 11, 3 tons were detected and removed from the circuits thanks to the daily action of nearly a thousand civil servants of the Republic deployed in the region.

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Customs officers who also have a less well-known role: advising companies in their economic action center to ensure that they are legally competitive.

205 bodies were thus supported this year, while the fight for the protection of the environment also increased sharply (+66%).

20 findings relating to protected species were thus recorded this year.

All this in record time: 3 minutes and 45 seconds on average for goods to be immobilized during checks.