Inside Woodlands Checkpoint
Search and examination officers at Singapore’s checkpoints have to detect and intercept contraband before it enters the country. In 2023, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) foiled 43,000 such cases across its air, land and sea checkpoints.
Here’s what officers like Belinda look out for when a suspicious vehicle pulls up at the Woodlands Checkpoint, at the Johor-Singapore Causeway - one of the world’s busiest land crossings.
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Search and examination officers at Singapore’s checkpoints have to detect and intercept contraband before it enters the country. In 2023, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) foiled 43,000 such cases across its air, land and sea checkpoints.
Here’s what officers like Belinda look out for when a suspicious vehicle pulls up at the Woodlands Checkpoint, at the Johor-Singapore Causeway - one of the world’s busiest land crossings.
Inside Woodlands Checkpoint
Woodlands Checkpoint is one of Singapore’s two land checkpoints connecting ground traffic with Malaysia. Clearing several hundred thousand travellers a day, it is one of the world’s busiest checkpoints. Human traffic, comprising visitors and workers, as well as cargo traffic, carrying all kinds of goods, pass through the checkpoint. And that volume is expected to increase by a third by 2050.
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