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contents FEBRUARY 2012 VOLUME 18 ISSUE 1 REGULAR FEATURES 12


01 Lead Editorial 04 Air Watch 10 AVSEC Opinion: Yves Duguay 43 Industry News 47 Security Diary 48 The Final Word: Carolina Ramírez-Taborda


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REGIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOCUS 41 Australia & New Zealand


Editorial Advisory Board


Dominique R. Antonini Director, Business Development, AVS&C, Geneva, Switzerland


Geoffrey D Askew AM Askew & Associates, Australia


Andy Blackwell


Head of Security and Resilience, Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., UK


Sidney Chau Executive Director, AVSECO, Hong Kong


Yves Duguay Vice President, Operations, Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, Canada


Matthew Finn Managing Director, Augmentiq, Switzerland


Rear Admiral (Retired) Cathal “Irish” Flynn USA


Georgina Graham Director, Airports Council International ICAO Bureau, Canada


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Abdulla al Hashimi Chief of Group Security, Emirates Airlines, U.A.E.


Tom Jensen President/CEO,


National Safe Skies Alliance, USA


Omer Laviv Chief Executive Officer,


Athena GS3 Security Implementations Ltd., Israel


Bart Mos Sr. Security Officer, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, The Netherlands


Banu Nair Cabin Training Chief, Turkish Airlines, Turkey


Robert Raffel Associate Professor, Homeland Security Program, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA


Carolina Ramírez-Taborda Assistant Director, Secure Freight, IATA, Switzerland


Norman Shanks FSyI


Principal Partner NSAI, UK and Visiting Professor in Aviation Security Coventry University & Associate Adjunct Professor Edith Cowan University


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Erroll G. Southers Associate Director, CREATE & Adjunct Professor of Homeland Security and Public Policy, University of Southern California, USA


Nara Srinivasan


Head, School of Justice & Business Law,


Edith Cowan University, Australia


Diana M. Stancu Safe and Secure Skies, Belgium


Niki Tompkinson UK


Capt. Nico Voorbach Chairman IFALPA Security Committee


Capt. Tom Walsh Aviation Security Consultant, USA


Steve Wolff President, Wolff Consulting Services, USA


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