The Department is always faced with the challenge of upholding effective Customs control while maintaining quality clearance services at entry and exit points. The passenger throughput keeps increasing in recent years, which makes it difficult to rely solely on manual risk assessment conducted on the spot by frontline officers. It is suggested to employ advanced technologies, such as video analytics, big data analytics and machine learning to assist officers to conduct passenger flow analysis, risk profiling and on-the-spot risk assessment.
