IF Australian Customs officials are found to have been corrupt, the government has "no option" but to hold a commission of inquiry or a royal commission into the matter, a former police officer says.
Ross Fusca, a former Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer, worked on a taskforce in Melbourne in 2004, created to tackle corruption on the city's docks.
Despite a number of "major" drug busts, his requests a year later to have the taskforce continued was denied because of a lack of funding, ABC Television's 7.30 program reported on Friday.
Mr Fusca said it meant that agencies were no longer working together "with a common goal".
"But organised crime was and they weren't being kept in check," Mr Fusca told the ABC.
"If there is an issue with law enforcement at points of entry into this country that are allowing criminal groups to become stronger and more powerful, the Australian government has no option but to throw a commission of inquiry or a royal commission behind it and get to the bottom of it," he said.
It emerged on Thursday that two Customs officers, a quarantine officer and five members of the public have been charged following a joint investigation by law enforcement agencies into corruption and drug smuggling at Sydney airport.
Following the revelations Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare announced on Thursday the establishment of a Customs Reform Board to provide advice on how to further tackle corruption in the service.
Opposition customs and border protection spokesman Michael Keenan told the ABC on Friday that before a royal commission took place the government would need to give a "full and frank explanation of what's going on".
"I think we need to do that before we look at having a third-party inquiry," Mr Keenan said.
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