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Protect national borders

With sharply increased concern about possible incidents or terrorism, border protection has taken on new importance. But the activities of a nation’s customs and border protection agents have always played an important role both in enforcing regulations about who or what can legally enter a country, and in protecting tariff revenues.

Customs and border protection agents may process tens of thousands of travelers, private and commercial vehicles, and shipments of all kinds every day. The challenge is to detect, in this flood of people and products, those that are illegal or dangerous.

SPSS predictive analytics solutions can provide invaluable assistance in these efforts. From historical data on particular kinds of shipments, for example, analysts can build models of expected parameters, such as total weight or expected routes taken. When shipments don’t fit the normal pattern, agents are alerted that further investigation may be warranted. Models can also be used to analyze patterns in other illegal behavior so that agency personnel and other resources can be deployed more effectively.

Because they use open, standards-based technologies, SPSS predictive analytics solutions enable customs and border protection agencies to interoperate with information systems and applications from other agencies. SPSS solutions support the analysis of data, including textual data, from a variety of sources. This increases the accuracy of predictive models—and agency results.

To learn more about how SPSS solutions support border protection, contact your SPSS representative today.