CANBERRA: Australian Customs and immigration agency has designed and implemented a CCTV technology that is used for facial recognition to identify suspicious travelers.
It will also analyses data from both immigration and customs systems to link passengers to illegal goods being smuggled in.
These technologies across the merged agency, such as advanced analytics, biometrics, CCTV and traveler border clearance. The team will be headed by Randall Brugeaud, who was CIO at Customs prior to this.
Once these new services have been put in place, the responsibilities for running them will be handed over to the IT division, headed by the agency’s new CIO Matt Yannopoulos. Yannopoulos was previously CIO of the Immigration Agency.
The Department of Customs and Department of Immigration are will become a single agency from 1 July this year.
