Immigration officers hail new border control system

Mmegi caught up with Thabo Kwapa, an immigration officer, during a training session in Gaborone for officers on the use of the new technology. The exercise was conducted by the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs.  Kwapa said that once they have a client's picture and bio data, there is no longer any need for "him or her to go from one office to the other in order to have documents like passports processed. It is therefore time saving," she said.

Another officer Mantsho Moatshe said besides just stamping passports at the border, the PBCS enables them to know who has passed through the border, at what time, information that is good both for generating departmental reports and most importantly for security.