A task force will be set up to target corruption at Customs as crime gets sophisticated at Australia's borders.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said Task Force Pharos will combat hard-to-detect corruption and "weed out those who think they can lay low while the heat passes".
"The task force will identify officers or groups who pose significant risk to the service as a result of their on-duty or off-duty behaviour, their associations outside the workplace or their involvement in criminal activities," Mr Morrison told reporters in Sydney on Wednesday.
"It will act as an intense check to ensure that the integrity measures introduced in the past 12 months are robust and effective."
The former federal Labor government introduced a number of measures to target corruption within Customs.
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Eight Customs officers have been arrested since August last year over corruption.
