Border Patrol

Border Patrol

2002
★★★★☆ 7.0/10
📺 14 Seasons
🎬 55 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 25 min/episode
DocumentaryReality
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.

Seasons

Season 1
2002 • 10 Episodes
Season 4
2009 • 10 Episodes
Season 5
2010 • 10 Episodes
Season 6
2012 • 10 Episodes
A drug smuggler lands at Auckland Airport; officers are kept busy with questionable sausages; and a man with a shady past tries to enter New Zealand.
Season 7
2015 • 7 Episodes
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.
Season 8
2016 • 8 Episodes
A couple of Russian working girls try to talk their way across the Border; and it's all hands on deck when a slippery visitor arrives at the Port. Catch all the action from the frontline
Season 9
2017 • 10 Episodes
A young Brazilian woman finds herself and her bag full of tricks in the Customs red zone, and a plane load of Ukrainian Fishermen are checked at the border.
Season 10
2018 • 10 Episodes
New Season. Tonight, three Israeli men are found with large quantities of MDMA, some Ukrainian fishermen bring enough booze to sink their ship, and there's a strong smell at Queenstown Airport.
Season 11
2019 • 12 Episodes
A lovesick Lithuanian begs for mercy, Customs find enough cigarettes to sink a ship at Christchurch airport, and Biosecurity deal with a sneaky pest trying to hitchhike into the country.
Season 12
2021 • 10 Episodes
Biosecurity officer Jade finds an expensive exercise in witchcraft, while Customs officers shed light on some suspicious lampshades.
Season 13
2022 • 10 Episodes
In denial or being duped? Customs stop a woman who doesn’t believe she’s in the wrong, but her suitcase full of cocaine says otherwise.
Season 14
2025 • 10 Episodes
A traveller is caught sporting the wrong kind of South American souvenir; Customs inspect a pool filter and Immigration speaks with a Canadian visitor who has a chequered past.

Cast

Timothy Balme
Timothy Balme
Narrator

Network

TVNZ 1

Production

Greenstone TV

Keywords

airportillegal drugscustoms