The Monitoring and Video Surveillance Center building will be in charge of targeting and managing risks by monitoring the movement of goods, which will result in an increase in the collection of taxes by combating smuggling.
A total of B/.3,157,604.00 were transferred to Customs. Photo: Courtesy
More than B/.3 million balbas, which were approved as a starting transfer by the Budget Commission of the National Assembly of Deputies for the National Customs Authority, will be used to acquire the building that will house the Monitoring and Video Surveillance Center ( B/.2.399.258.00) and to create 80 new positions within Terminal 2 of the Tocumen International Airport (B/.758.346.00).
According to the Customs authorities in the Monitoring and Video Surveillance Center building, they will be in charge of targeting and managing the risks by monitoring the movement of goods, which will result in an increase in the collection of taxes by combating smuggling and customs fraud and will maximize the analysis of information through the interaction of a multidisciplinary team.
Tayra Barsallo, director of Customs, explained that this center will concentrate the results of different technological systems, such as the images of non-intrusive reviews carried out by scanner equipment and video surveillance cameras of customs facilities, as well as traceability of land cargo transportation through the RFID antenna system, the results of radiation portals, among others.
Barsallo pointed out that this center will allow the General Directorate and its work team to make better decisions and have more effective results in different areas of the institution.
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