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| February 1, 2010 | Airlines chiefs call for passenger profiling, scanners | | London: Chiefs of the world's leading airlines have warned that full body scanners will not eliminate the terrorist threat, and have demanded passenger profiling as well. Security
can only be guaranteed by making a risk assessment of people before they are even
board an aircraft, The Telegraph quoted Giovanni Bisignani, director general of
the International Air Transport Association, as saying. "Instead of looking for
bad things-nail clippers and rogue bottles of shampoo-security systems, we need
to focus on finding bad people," he added. The intervention from one of aviation's
most influential figures comes as passengers and airlines wait to hear the results
of a comprehensive review of airport security announced by Gordon Brown. British
Transport Secretary Lord Adonis will unveil the Government's plans when he is
expected to demand for the increased use of body scanners and order a swift
increase
in the use of explosive-detecting swabs at departure gates. Airlines fear that
over-reliance of scanners and pat down searches of all passengers could bring
airports grinding to a halt and "waste resources". Airlines have urged Governments
to combine hi-tech screening with intelligence about terrorist threats and evaluation
of the risk posed by individual passengers, to pick out potential terrorists who
would be subjected to more detailed searches. Targeting travellers seen as a
potential
threat - known as passenger profiling - remains controversial, with some critics
arguing that it is potentially racist with Asian and Arab travellers more likely
to be picked out than others. But supporters of profiling say that techniques
are more sophisticated and would include taking into account how tickets were
bought - a cash purchase would trigger concern - previous travel and even behaviour
at the airport itself. | |
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