Bristol Airport Workers Security Checks To Increase

Staff at Bristol Airport are to be given security checks to ensure the airport does not suffer from security threats from its own staff in an ongoing strive for enhanced security at the airport.

The order for the security checks has come from the Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly who has stated that workers at key positions at airports must undergoe these checks in a strive to ensure airports are not having to check their own staff as well as passengers for possible terrorist connections.

The current rules state that staff that work at airports in Britain have to be checked by the Criminal Records Bureau as well as have a terrorist check that is made by the security services. One of the flaws in the current system however appears to be that employees that are employed from outside the UK only have to undergo a security services check.

The new procedures will extend much further, with British airport staff, even ones that work in shops and restaurants having to undergo checks. There can be no denying that security has improved since the events of 2005 in London however there are fears that the screening of staff that work in airports has not been up to the standard of other security measures implemented, this now appears to be being remedied.

There are many opportunities for an airport worker to allow a dangerous weapon through security or place a bomb or dangerous item on to a flight that the measures will attempt to eliminate.

Published by: Jon Vickery