CBP Fiscal Year report

Here is the 2007 fiscal year U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency report.
Some highlights:


CBP 2007 Fiscal Year in ReviewTeam
• CBP continued to increase its workforce, hiring 2156 new CBP officers, for a net increase of 648 officers, and 340 agriculture specialists, for a net increase of 151 specialists.
• In fiscal year 2007, CBP increased Border Patrol agent staffing by 21 percent,from 12,349 in FY2006 to 14,923 at the end of FY2007, the largest yearly increase in the history of the Border Patrol.

Between Ports of Entry
• CBP Border Patrol agents improved border security, reducing the number of apprehensions at the borders by 20 percent in fiscal year 2007 compared with fiscal year 2006. Yuma Sector saw a reduction in apprehensions by 68 percent, the Del Rio Sector saw a reduction in apprehensions by 46 percent, and the El Paso Sector saw a reduction in apprehensions by 38 percent.
• CBP exceeded its first major tactical infrastructure milestone by completing 76 miles of primary fence. On September 30, 2007 CBP announced that it not only met its fiscal year 2007 goal to construct 70 miles of primary fence along the Southwest border, but exceeded that goal by 6 miles. On September 30, CBP had a total of 154.7 miles of primary fence along the Southwest border. CBP will deploy an additional 215 miles by the end of calendar year 2008 for a total of 370 miles.
• CBP has made significant progress to implement Project 28, the initial prototype of the SBInet technology solution. The Boeing Company has deployed all 9 re-locatable communication, camera and radar towers in the area of operations in Sasabe, Arizona. All 50 of the Project 28 agent vehicles have been fitted with the Common Operating Picture (COP) hardware and 24 out of the 50 vehicles have the entire COP system to include computers, modems, and satellite phone connections. CBP has completed certification and accreditation testing and anticipates starting the System Verification Test soon.
• CBP officers continued to protect America at the ports of entry. In fiscal year 2007, CBP officers seized more than 820,000 pounds of narcotics, arrested more than 25,000 suspected criminals, interdicted more than 170,000 inadmissible aliens turned away at the port of entry, and conducted 1.5 million agricultural interceptions (meat and plants).
• In 2007, CBP launched the National Agriculture Release Program, an automated program that allows the inspection of high-volume, very-low risk commodities to be expedited. NARP ultimately will allow CBP to divert valuable resources to other high risk agricultural commodities which facilitates trade and enhances customer service.
• In fiscal year 2007, agriculture specialists made 1.57 million agricultural interceptions (meats & plants that are prohibited entry into the U.S.) Through inspection of commodities and seized products, they found nearly 60,000 actionable or reportable plant pest interceptions.
• As part of CBP’s efforts to secure our nation’s ports of entry, CBP expanded the Container Security Initiative (CSI), increasing participating ports to 58 in fiscal year 2007. CSI now covers 86 percent of U.S.-bound maritime containers. In addition, CBP launched the Secure Freight Initiative (SFI) to help safeguard global maritime cargo.
• CBP enhanced the Customs Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program through the establishment of minimum-security criteria for brokers, rail carriers, terminal operators, Mexican highway carriers, Mexican Long Haul Carriers, and U.S. and foreign port terminal operators. In addition to adding 41 supply chain security specialists, the program completed 1812 validations and 368 re-validations, which involved 2,819 site visits in 83 foreign countries.
• By the end of fiscal year 2007, CBP deployed 142 new radiation portal monitors throughout the nation’s ports of entry, bringing the number of RPMs to 1023 at the nation’s land and sea ports of entry.
• CBP processed a huge volume of commercial imports exceeding 31.4 million entries and value surpassing $2 trillion. The agency collected $33 billion in revenue.
• Commercial trade enforcement actions continued to take center stage. This year, more than 17,000 trade enforcement seizures valued at $359 million were initiated, including more than 13,600 seizures of goods infringing intellectual property rights (IPR) with a domestic value totaling more than $196 million. Other seizures included textiles and wearing apparel violating quota/visa requirements ($49 million), and seizures for violations of other federal agency laws covering cigarettes, diamonds, game animals and birds, and motorcycles and automobiles. CBP also initiated 449 commercial fraud penalties totaling nearly $220 million.