Posts Tagged Airport Security

Physical Security – At it’s best.

Just want to illustrate couple of incidents on physical security that we commonly observe.

Once while driving through a technology park, I was stopped by a couple of security personnel and they requested me to open the boot of my car and there was the second one running a mirror underneath my car and looking at something. Since the amount of different car models that I has come out in market, I assumed that the bottom  of every car must be different and out of curiosity, I just enquired with the security personnel, as to what is he looking for and you will be amazed with the answer. “I am not sure sir, they have asked me to check and I am checking”.

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Frisking of VIP’s at airport’s

In the recent incident of Dr. APJ Kalam been frisked at the IGI airport by the staff of Continental Airlines has created some news. The Airline has also tendered an apology to Dr. Kalam for the inconvienence caused – this is as reported in the TimesofIndia daily newspaper on 22nd July 2009.

Now does that apology mean that Continental Airlines will not frisk any VIP’s in future while they board the flight..? I see a security concern here.

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