Orlando airport getting closer to private screeners
June 22, 2012, 04:30 pm
The Transportation Security Administration has recently given preliminary approval that will allow Orlando Sanford International Airport to use private security screeners.
Under the TSA’s Screening Partnership Program, the final decision is up to the TSA on whether the use of private screeners is permitted. There are already 16 airports out of the 450 nationwide that use private security for airport screening.
It would be hard for the average passenger to tell the difference between the TSA and private screeners. The private contractors are paid by the federal government not the airport and the TSA trains them on protocol they have to follow. The private screeners even wear the TSA uniforms, and TSA supervisors are on-site overseeing the private contractors operations.
“I hope this opens a new era of reform for TSA operations, not only at Orlando Sanford but across the nation,” said Rep. John Mica, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “It’s critical that TSA get out of the business of running a huge bureaucracy and human resources operation and refocus its attention on security, analyzing intelligence and setting the highest risk-based security standards. TSA needs to focus on going after terrorists - not little old ladies, veterans and children.”
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