There is an enormous amount of cocaine coming from Jamaica at the moment, much of it carried by couriers who have swallowed it (sometimes up to half-a-kilo). Port Health are routinely x-raying pax for TB these days, and the drugs are coming up on the screen. A Customs person told me that one courier started to pass the packages while in flight. He went into the toilet and recycled them!
Very long prison sentences are being handed down, but it doesn't seem to be stemming the flow. There is a view that the pax ought to be screened at the departure end - at least that would save the £20k per year that it takes to keep them in prison.
[ 14 December 2001: Message edited by: JPJ ]