New border technology helps combat illegal drug, weapon and cash smuggling

A new piece of X-ray technology may help prevent illegal drug and gun smuggling at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Security technology company Viken Detection created a unique handheld scanner called the HBI-120 for law enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers. It’s goal is to help fight drug trafficking, terrorism and other hazardous threats, all with a simple X-ray scan...

Officers can quickly find items in compartments hidden in the seats of a car. “No kidding, in ten seconds an officer who has never even put hands on this machine found 8 kilos of meth in a compartment," he explained. "It's truly a game-changer."...

“The alternative is paying for damages on a vehicle, the alternative is having your officers come in contact with fentanyl and possibly overdosing... that can be avoided with a device like this,”...

Viken is constantly upgrading. Its latest invention, the Osprey-UVX, is an X-ray machine that scans the bottom of moving vehicles. It’s expected to roll out later this year at the Laredo and Brownsville ports of entry. Officers will be able to scan a car instantly as it passes through their ports...

“You can stay in your vehicle and you can drive either over or through a portal and you will be able to get a complete image of the vehicle,” said Ryan.

Within the year Viken Detection hopes to take things even further by trialing a new device that can scan an entire vehicle as it crosses a port of entry.

“Our goal is for CBP to go through these demonstrations over the next couple of months and by year-end they will be making their decision and we expect 2021 and beyond to be in installation mode getting these vehicle scanners all the way across the board," said Ryan.

Good. What comes across the border is meth, fentanyl, and other nasty s*** - and low-grade weed. Buy American! ;)

Partner, it is a game changer indeed.

We have so many drugs coming in from China to Mexico and then the Drug Cartels get these drugs into the U.S.A.

Fentanyl is a very dangerous drug and a lot of folks are taking this drug and George Floyd took some Fenanyl and you have to be carefully seated or resting.

The Drug Cartels do not care how it gets to the U.S.A. since this is where they make their big bucks.

Great post.

this is Useless, just a way for some politically connected contractors to get rich from Security Theater.

I know for a fact that they have had these at the us canada border since soon after 9-11. I would be shocked to find that they did not already have them at the marked mexico border crossings.

Do you wonder how much and what kinds of radiation you might get exposed to trying to cross the border ?

I would bet 99% + of illegal crap moves through tunnels or unmarked crossings. This will not even affect the Cartels at all.

“SURREY (NEWS1130) – Have you ever wondered what exactly your car is being scanned for as you cross into the US? Quite a bit of technology, like radon scans and X-rays, have been added at our main crossings since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

If you’ve got something in you car that you probably shouldn’t, chances are the guards will find it. Mike Milne with US Border and Customs says the gamma reader you pass through gives a thorough X-ray in case of contraband or people trying to sneak into the States.

Then there’s the radiation monitor.

“Those yellow statues you may see as you pass through the primary processing areas at our ports. Those are basically reading any kind of radiation signature. They are even so sensitive they may read you if you have had a recent medical procedure. And those are designed to identify anything that could be used as a weapon of mass effect.”

It’s not just your car that’s being examined, there is also that handy license plate reader. “

When America was especially great, no one had heard of marijuana.

Marijuana has been in widespread recreational use for over half a century, despite being illegal (except for a handful of states in the past few years). The only way possible to get back to rarity is through education and social pressure - as with the drugs alcohol and tobacco.

today’s high-potency marijuana.

The Reefer Madness brigade keeps harping on this like it means something. One could get as high as a kite on the weed of 30 years ago, just as today one can get as drunk on beer as on liquor.

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