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Drivers urged to use smuggling hotline

29th July 1999, Page 12
29th July 1999
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IN Truck drivers are being urged to play their part in the fight against drug, tobacco and alcohol smuggling by reporting any suspicious behaviour on a new confidential hotline.

The freephone number, 0800 59 5000, was launched last week by Paymaster General Dawn Prirnarolo who said tobacco smugg1ng cost the

Treasury £1,7bn last year. "The

new hotline is a great opportunity for people to make a difference," she added. Customs and Excise says intelligence from the public is vital to detect and prosecute smugOrs and bootleggers.

In one case,a tip-off

from a freight for

. \ warder led vs01510-8-1t51--to a number of arrests uttant:4;;)ne recovery of th £6.5m-wor of Class A drugs.