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I work for the Import Safety CTAC.

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were working on a project to locate Land Rover Defenders;

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a particular model of an old style Land Rover.

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These are older Land Rovers that are not in compliance

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with current Department of Transportation standards.

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It's a hip, fun-to-drive vehicle.

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People see them and their eyes light up.

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I'm doing the targeting.

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I'm watching for those shipments, so that we can send out cargo hold requests to the ports

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and give them a heads-up that this is part of our operation, and could they please take a look?

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I've set up some queries in our automated targeting system, ATS, to help me narrow that field down,

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so I'm not looking at the legitimate Land Rovers and I am looking at the Defenders.

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Customs and Border Protection goes out and examines these vehicles

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and sometimes you got a, y'know, pretty close to new vehicle with this ratty old VIN number on it.

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The Officer might be looking at the vehicle thinking,

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"Geez, that doesn't look like its 25 years old to me."

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Officers in the field will get out their digital camera

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and go out and look at the vehicle

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and start clicking and taking these shots,

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and then they put it all together into a Powerpoint

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and send it over to NHTSA [National Highway Transportation Safety Administration]

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We're asking the field to do this examination work

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on a vehicle that we think is violative or has a good chance to be violative.

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That's the kind of targeting we try to do here at CTAC.

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I want to have a level of confidence that the vehicles coming at me on the highway

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are going to be safe too; and for the most part, I feel that in this country.

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It's something we take for granted.

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And it's because NHTSA is out there putting down these regulations and people are abiding by those.

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Here we have vehicles that are not playing by those rules,

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and they're just so cool that people want them anyway.

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And I don't think that's right.

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