Narcotics Squad

SARS officers normally conduct their own operations under the Customs Acts and are not obligated to communicate with Crime Intelligence or other police units unless drugs or other illegal items are found during inspections that require police involvement.

“normally SARS conduct their own operations in terms of their customs acts. So they are not obliged to communicate with Crime Intelligence or anyone else unless they pick up something that requires the police, then may on their inspection, they will then say, oh, we found drugs here. Okay, call the Narcotics Squad to come in and continue”