Border Patrol - Series Eight, Episode One

Television – 2016

This 2016 episode of Border Patrol makes for one wild ride, packing in snakes, drugs, fraud and illegal sex work— all in 22 minutes! At both Auckland and Queenstown International Airports, the stakes are high as the team uncover danger and deception. Perhaps most bizarrely, a baby grand piano sent from China is revealed to be constructed out of a Chinese flu remedy used to make meth. Other fascinating segments include fumigating an SUV to sedate a snake, identifying an international criminal at customs, and a security officer remaining calm in the face of some serious attitude.

New Zealand's air, sea and land borders are constantly under attack from drugs, prohibited goods, and reckless visitors arriving with plants, pests and animal diseases that could cripple our economy overnight. But our vigilant protectors are always on the job: the men and women from Customs, Immigration and Ministry for Primary Industries. They are the gatekeepers, protecting New Zealand's way of life.
– Narrator Tim Balme introduces the show