Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
It's intelligence led these days so they won't normally be present unless they know there is someone of interest. The 2 desks are actually for Police Scoland under the Terrorism Act, hence the Schedule 7 poster stuck on the front. HMRC or Border Force tend to hang around the carousels or by the exit.
Before the Airport was redeveloped the carousel used to be "landside" for people who had started their journeys outside the UK .
Seems they are not bothered about someone with hand luggage only who may have inadvertently exceeded their DF Limits.
At the end of the month I am flying from BCN to EDI via LHR with a 1 Hour 20 Minute interval between arriving and departing. As there are no smoking facilities in T5 I normally exit the Airport for a quick burn and go back through 1st Wing. Just a bit worried if things are tight and I opt for the external option they will claim it's my fault for not using the internal one if I get held up and miss the flight.?