Body scanners a ‘must’ a UK airports
Helen YoungMinisters ignore human rights advice and rule out option of pat-down search when scanner goes on trial at Heathrow next week
When new full body scanners make their début next week at London’s Heathrow sirport, passengers will have no right o effuse the procedure, it’s been revealed by ministers.
It’s been reported that Heathrow won’t offer the option of full-body pat-down searches – which are offered at airports in the United States – despite warnings from Equality and Human Rights Commission of the British government.
The full body scanners, also branded as the ‘reveal all scanners’ are said to show absolutely everythin on and inside a person, even objects hidden in body cavities.
This, according to human rights organizations, is a breach of of privacy rules under the Human Rights Act.
British transport minister Paul Clark said that a random numbers of travellers would go through the new scanners at airports within the United Kingdom.
The introduction of the new devices would closely be followed by extra “trace” scanners later in the year. These are said to be able to spot liquid explosives.
Counter-terrorism minister Lord West told the MPs that the introduction of “religious or ethnic profiling” into transport security had been firmly ruled out by the government. He said that instead, employees of airport security were going through “behavioural profiling” training. This means security staff will be more knowledgeable in order to spot travellers who had paid for their tickets using cash, were boarding a long-haul flight with only a book as luggage or were behaving in a bizarre way at the airport.
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