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Effective border security (excluding the function of borderline protection), within overarching border control structures at ports of entry and land border posts, is an essential part of state strategies for combatting cross-border crime. However, to be effective and in anyway moderately successful requires a co-ordinated multi-level agency co-operative approach. Such an approach is crucial given the diversity of criminal activities that can and do occur at border points of entry be they air, sea or land. Critical to modern-day border security is the use and implementation of a range of technology and aids (equipment) allied to efficient management structures to effectively combat any cross-border criminal activity, usually of a transnational organised form. In addition, local agencies need to adhere and comply (full enforcement) to several international treaties, conventions, protocols and policies in implementing any border management model with an embedded border security regime.
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Minnaar, A. (2022). Border Security: An Essential but Effective Tool in Combatting Cross-Border Crime. In: Gill, M. (eds) The Handbook of Security. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91735-7_17
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