‘Diving for dope’: identity in submarine drug policing at the ‘maritime gateway to Europe’

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This article offers an ethnographic account of everyday identity (re)configuration in submarine policing by the Dutch Customs Diving Team (CDT) officers of illegal underwater drug trafficking in the Port of Rotterdam (PoR). In so doing, it explores what it means to perform drug inspections that depe...

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Main Author: Eski, Yarin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: European journal of criminology
Year: 2022, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 139-153
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Keywords:
Submarine policing
Port of Rotterdam
Customs Diving Team
Drug Trafficking
Identity
Port security

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