Belgium strengthens the control of private aircraft in the fight against smuggling

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Belgian customs officials will start using military radar organizations to control private aircraft in an attempt to fight trafficking.

Officials recognize that smugglers use the shortage of control over the country’s small airports and helpers.

Private planes are often used to carry drugs, weapons, money and illegal items with small or control.

There are about 150 aerotomes and helipports in Belgium, allowing private flights to land and depart without many formal customs control.

According to the authorities, this monitoring has created them in the gravitational pole for lack of trafficking.

“There are thousands of airplanes in Belgium. The habits have accumulated all their efforts and restrictions at six most important airports, but the other 150 really was a blind point,” said Christian Wanderwaren, the general administrator of the Belgian customs.

Private aircraft offers other benefits to criminals, in which flexible ways, quick background return times, and the ability to turn off transponders – allows for the finding of airplane – are invisible to ordinary control systems.

To improve control, the customs employee will now be presented to the Belgium National Aerospace Conservation Center.

Since then, the Radar data provided by the Ministry of Defense to identify and mark suspicious aircraft, even those who have been disabled.

“This will allow a team to send a brigade to an airport, where we have not done any control yet,” Wanderwaren explained.

Last year, Belgian officials reported only 30 violations of trafficking on private aircraft. But with the severity of surveillance, authorities expect to increase the detection.