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Finnish Customs on Tuesday said it has started using its first body scanning device at Helsinki Airport.
Customs said it uses the device to monitor international passenger traffic in cases where travellers are suspected of smuggling concealed narcotics inside their bodies. Since the start of the year, the device has helped uncover five smuggling cases where travellers tried to conceal drugs and bring them into Finland.
The most commonly smuggled narcotic is cocaine, the agency said in a statement.
Customs is the first law enforcement authority in Finland to use the body-imaging device. Similar machines are, however, used by authorities in other countries.
The device operates as an X-ray machine, generating imagery that shows soft tissue, bones and any possible foreign objects. Capturing an image takes around 10 seconds.
The radiation dose is much smaller than that produced by similar medical equipment, Customs said.
The total acquisition price for the imaging device was about 100,000 euros, of which the EU funded about 80 percent.
