9 JANUARY: LOS ANGELES
A passenger was found to be carrying what looked to be an ordinary pink-coloured cell phone but was actually a stun gun. The item was confiscated but the passenger was allowed to travel to Washington as planned.
10 JANUARY: DELHI
An Air India flight landed as a result of a bomb threat, but the doors to the aircraft were only opened 20 minutes after the aircraft had landed and reached its isolation bay. The Captain continually requested that steps be brought to the aircraft to allow the worried passengers (aware that they had landed because of a threat) to disembark but, due in part to the distance from the terminal, steps were not available.
10 JANUARY: SACRAMENTO Edwin Barton, 26, was stunned with a Taser gun when he tried to return to the airport’s secure area, allegedly to retrieve bus tickets he had left on board the Southwest Airlines flight he had just arrived on, but refused to go through the screening process and, instead, tried to circumvent the checkpoint regardless.
13 JANUARY: BANGKOK Reports emerge that security patrols are to be increased around Suvarnabhumi Airport in order to prevent unlicensed film crews filming in the airport. The action was taken after a Japanese pornographic film clip appeared on YouTube in which a Thai female actor, dressed as a flight attendant, is seen walking through the airport before being lured by a rapist.
27 JANUARY: LOS ANGELES TSA screeners mistook a diabetic woman's insulin pump for a weapon, resulting in the woman being detained, causing an hour's delay to flights.
29 JANUARY: HONG KONG An agitated Air France passenger attacked two police officers with a metal queue dividing barrier. He was eventually restrained and arrested, but all three ended up requiring hospital treatment.
30 JANUARY: NEW YORK
22 JANUARY: YEMEN Air Force units protested at both Sanaa and Taiz International Airports demanding the removal of Major General Mohammed Saleh, the brother of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh, as Commander of the Air Force.
23 JANUARY: NASHVILLE
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was stopped at the checkpoint at Nashville International Airport and refused to undergo a pat- down search. As a result he missed his flight to Washington.
CATSA: A
AVSEC OPINION By Yves Duguay
decade after 11th September 2001, the heightened security environment at airports has become the new norm for air travellers, as well as airport, airline and security personnel. However, economic uncertainties around the world coupled with fiscal restraint on the part of governments have increased the challenge for those responsible for airport security, demanding higher efficiencies and a reduction of duplication between the various partners that protect and screen the travelling public. In Canada, the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) undertook a number of transformational initiatives following a review of its operations by the federal government in summer 2010. These initiatives focused on operational excellence and value creation through expanded collaboration with industry, as well as a more efficient management of front-line operations – while at the same time improving the passenger experience. Additionally, to ensure the organisation
remains an effective aviation industry partner, CATSA actively questioned the value it offers the industry it serves and how it can better support it. As part of that process, it also looked at how it is perceived by passengers, partners and suppliers. As a result, CATSA began shifting its focus
Two pipes, perceived by screeners to potentially be pipe bombs were found in a passenger’s baggage at La Guardia Airport. The items were confiscated but the passenger was allowed to board the flight. According to media reports the screeners’ supervisor did not call the Police for six hours, during which time the items were kept on a radiator in a public area. The Port Authority Police Department bomb squad’s expert, when he did arrive, decided that the pipes could potentially be explosive devices; only then was the security area closed down.
16 JANUARY: BANGKOK Police discovered bomb-making materials following the arrest of Atris Hussein, a Lebanese man who is suspected of planning an attack, at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. The Thai authorities acted after they received warnings from the United States and Israel. Hussein later led police to a Bangkok suburb where 4,380 kg (9,656 lb) of urea and 37 litres (8.1 gallons) of liquid ammonium nitrate, a chemical compound, were stored (being about twice the amount used in the Oklahoma City bombing). As a result, security was increased at Bangkok’s airports.
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from one predominantly rooted in security to a more balanced approach between security integrity and customer service, relegating the “one size fits all” security model to the past. Ten years after the tragic events of 11th September 2001, from which CATSA was created, the organisation is working within a more mature security framework as it relates to the aviation industry. Organisations such as CATSA must widen their service approach to include the needs of the industry as well as the protection of the passenger. As such, CATSA developed and began implementing – in consultation with its regulator, Transport Canada – a security screening process improvement plan that included enhancements to both customer service and screening processes.
These
changes were based on a consideration of the security process within the broader air travel environment.
The outcome of this more holistic approach – which includes some risk-based measures – is that CATSA is now better positioned to serve the needs of diverse passenger groups and increase the number of passengers and bags screened each hour at the security screening checkpoint, while maintaining a high level of security effectiveness and compliance. Each is vital to achieving excellence at today’s security screening checkpoint.
February 2012 Aviationsecurityinternational
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