Nothing will probably surprise the Border Guard, the ingeniousness of smugglers from year to year is more and more surprising. 

Today from the series called the ingeniousness has no limits  - smugglers 

Cigarettes and alcohol are most often smuggled goods. The Border Guard is one of the most modern Polish uniformed forces. It being equipped with more and more state-of-the-art equipment i.e. fingerprints readers, cordless optical passports readers, night vision devices or drones, let alone a portable X-ray scanners. 

Have you ever wondered how many packets of cigarettes can be hidden inside the door?

Officers of the Border Guard impressed about 11000 packets of cigarettes valued at 130 thousand PLN, hidden in the inside of 20 doors transported by smugglers. 

Sometimes  in order to get to smuggled goods,  officers must put a lot of effort. Access to smuggled cigarettes in the stopped cars was possible only after cutting holes in the metal sheet masking the casing of the battery, the cockpit and the heater. 

It is possible to find cigarettes in plastic bottles or fire extinguishers,. Drugs could be found in sausages. A l cake stuffed with 45 packets of cigarettes was also an interesting find. 

Dog framed into the smuggling - during the routine control guards found in one of the cars more than 600 packets of cigarettes without the excise tax. In the course of the conversation with the driver it came to light, that lots of under-the-counter goods were still on his premises. The ingeniousness of the smuggler was surprising, because apart from the hiding place in entrance stairs and double floors, cigarettes were found in the kennel, where a few hundred packets of contraband goods were found. The estimated value of smuggled goods amounted to 121 thousand PLN. 

(Source: Border Guard / The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration)