Timothy Balme
Narrator
Border Patrol (2002)
Season 7
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.
Released May 5, 2002
Episode 30 min
10+
Genres: Documentary, Reality, Reality TV
Keywords: tmdb.airport, tmdb.illegal-drugs, tmdb.customs, mdblist.has-trailer
Production Companies: Greenstone TV
Network: TVNZ 1
Country: New Zealand
Languages:
English
S7E1 - Heart Patient
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.
April 20, 2015, midnight
S7E2 - 50k Meth Man
Caught at the border, a drug smuggler with a large package of the drug P; a fish smuggler with dripping wet pockets; and an unemployed woman's money making scheme goes wrong.
April 27, 2015, midnight
S7E3 - Perfume Eu Tonga
A Tongan man who arrives from the US with a large quantity of undeclared perfume bottles runs into trouble over Intellectual property rights.
May 4, 2015, midnight
S7E4 - Deported Tour Guide
Customs cash dog Roxy pulls aside a tour group who she detects are carrying large sums of cash; and some Aussie promo girls arrive in Queenstown with containers full of unidentified white powders.
May 11, 2015, midnight
S7E5 - Tall Ships
Large hauls of high risk foodstuffs are located on regatta of Tall Ships at Opua wharf, and cash dog Roxy strikes again.
May 18, 2015, midnight
S7E6 - Undies Hash
A Brazilian man caught at the border with drugs in his undies, illegal weapons are stopped at both the airport and the mail centre, and containers of Formula One cars need to pass biosecurity checks.
May 25, 2015, midnight
S7E7 - Forgotten MDMA Pills
A Chinese tourist expounds her views on New Zealand after being caught bringing in a biosecurity threat, and 18 race horses are unloaded on the Tarmac and checked for equine viruses.
June 1, 2015, midnight
Network: TVNZ 1
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 4290 min.
Released: May 5, 2002
Last Air Date: May 20, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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