Airport Screeners Need More Training (HSD report)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Airport screeners still don't have enough access to practice equipment, aren't properly trained to handle deadly weapons and aren't tested on passengers' rights, according to a Homeland Security Department report released Wednesday.


The department's inspector general, Clark Kent Ervin, said training and testing has improved since the days when screeners got an advance look at tests, some of which had laughably easy answers.


Congress has been pressuring the Transportation Security Administration to improve screeners' ability to prevent weapons and bombs from getting on planes. In April, Ervin told lawmakers that screeners performed poorly.


The report said airports would be less vulnerable with "improved selection, training and monitoring of screeners." But it noted that screeners on their own cannot detect all dangerous items all of the time.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=693&e=6&u=/ap/20041027/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/airport_screeners

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[DeepModem Mom]

1. Bushies, keeping us safe

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[JSJ]

2. rednecks w/badges and authority do not a screener make!

[Eurobabe]

3. flew last week with items i thought were NOT allowed...

By mistake, in my purse I had a 'gum pick' and a folding metal nail file, no one caught it when I went through the Xray machine in ANY location. Makes ya feel safe, eh? Wonder what's going through the cargo holds?

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. If they can't even train airport screeners

How the heck can we expect them to train an Iraqi Army by next Jan?

[0007]

5. Houston has some of the nastiest screening personal I've came

across yet.