Another big bike seized by MICP X-ray

The MICP X - ray   Field Office has seized recently  another slightly used Harley Davidson Motorcycle on August 31, 2011 

during  the conduct of X-ray scanning inspection of personal effects shipments arriving at t h e  s a i d port from Middle Eastern Countries.

Based on the report of MICP Field Officer Renato D. Palgan to the XIP Head, Atty. Ma. Lourdes V. Mangaoang, the detection and apprehension of the undeclared motorcycle inside consolidation boxes of personal effects was made possible by vigilant and skilled XIP Inspectors Rielito A. Hernandez and Vincent Anthony G. Guzman who were also responsible in the series of seizures of motorcycles in the past few days. When the shipment passed through the detection arm, the two XIP officers were alarmed by the irregularity of images on the X-ray monitor of the shipment, especially at the innermost portion of the container van. 

As a result of the derogatory X-ray findings, a Warrant of Seizure and Detention has been initiated by  MICP Field Office against the shipment after it was verified during the physical examination made by Customs Examiner Macabayao of the Informal Entry Division, in the presence of the Customs broker’s representative, that suspicious item on the X-ray printout image was indeed a highly valued motorcycle.

Since its full blast scanning operation using six mobile X-ray machines at the new container X-ray facility inside the ICTSI compound, the conduct of X-ray inspection of containerized shipments has been going-on smoothly with a daily average of at least 300 shipments subjected to X-ray inspection, in compliance with the directive of the Commissioner of Customs and the XIP Head to maximize the use of X-ray machines to have faster and efficient conduct of inspection of shipments.