Key Facts
- A full-body scanner of the
type being deployed in UK airports costs around £100,000.
- While the introduction of body scanners is a
welcome development in airport security, the Government should
place greater emphasis on varying the security measures in place
rather than relying on one make or model.
- There is a danger that by adopting "proportionate
measures" the Government adopts a too reactive stance on
the issue of airport security.
- The Government should mandate universal behavioural
training for all airport security staff at UK airports.
- The Government should be more willing to refuse
direct flights from countries not meeting tougher international
security standards and should provide more equipment and training
to airports across the globe.
- Privacy concerns should not prevent the deployment
of scanners; reports of such concerns are overstated.
- "Transec" which is currently based
in the Department for Transport should become the responsibility
of the Home Office through the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism.
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