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The Bureau of Customs is implementing the Offense Management System to track and monitor seized and forfeited goods to enhance risk assessment and profiling
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CMO 05-2022 sets guidelines for using the OMS to automate the listing of risk profiles of seized and forfeited shipments
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The order covers goods with manifests submitted electronically in advance or processed under the electronic-to-mobile system and subject to seizure and forfeiture
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is implementing an Offense Management System (OMS) that tracks and monitors the status of seized and forfeited goods to enhance its risk assessment and profiling.
The system, implemented under Customs Memorandum Order No. 05-2022, also collects information, including Inspection Acts, which is the tab in BOC’s Electronic-to-Mobile (E2M) system used by customs examiners and appraisers to encode reports and findings on goods declarations. It is also referred to as the risk assessment form of the declaration.
In effect since March 15, CMO 05-2022 sets guidelines for using the OMS to automate the listing of risk profiles of seized and forfeited shipments. It seeks to enhance application of risk assessment and to increase the effectiveness of threat analysis.
CMO 05-2022 covers goods whose manifests were electronically submitted in advance or processed under the E2M system and are subject to seizure and forfeiture proceedings, for monitoring and risk analysis.
BOC’s Risk Management Office (RMO) will use data in the offense document created in the OMS and analysis of the recorded offense to improve measures for fraud detection.
The implementation of OMS is pursuant to the RMO mandate under Executive Order No. 836 series of 2009, as implemented by Customs Administrative Order No. 06-2009 and CMO 51-2009.
EO 836 transformed the former Risk Management Group into the RMO, which, among other tasks, reviews and updates parameters of BOC’s selectivity system, conducts a continuing study/profile of importers, exporters and customs brokers, and maintains a database of all smuggling cases and related data.
BOC also implemented in 2020 a Universal Risk Management System, which likewise reviews and updates parameters of its selectivity system and conducts a continuing study/profile of importers, exporters and customs brokers.
