Departure checks: Alarming vulnerabilities at Frankfurt Airport – Hamburg evening paper

Departure checks: Alarming vulnerabilities at Frankfurt Airport – Hamburg evening paper

12.21.14, 16:43

NG trained employees looked after check-in even weapons. 2,500 security guards are checked. Frankfurt Airport is about to lose its status

. Photo: dpa A baggage check at the airport of Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt / Main. With hidden controls at Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt am Main (FRA), the European Commission has revealed significant security risks after a media report. The examiners had succeeded at every other attempt to smuggle weapons or dangerous objects through the passenger screening, writes the “Bild am Sonntag” (BamS). The main reason for the call of the problems classified as secret report poorly trained personnel contracted service providers. For example, the employee could have about the X-rays in the hand luggage checks not interpret them correctly.

The European Commission confirmed that there were safety tests at Europe’s airports on a regular basis. The spokesman in Brussels would not comment on the results of individual airports but. A spokesman for the Federal Police told the newspaper: “We have taken immediate action to ensure the safety of the passengers again.”

This also explains the currently long waiting times. Explained the spokesman for the European Commission, tests should identify safety deficiencies of the States shall ensure that will reworked and defects were eliminated quickly.

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Here is confirmed, the airport company Fraport that Frankfurt had been invited as well as some other European airports to improvements in safety. The evidence for passengers at German airports

Fraport spokesman Christopher Holschier said two companies controlled the passengers at Frankfurt Airport. I-SEC and the airport company itself alone Fraport a refresher of 2500 employees had been initiated. The coaches are increasingly present at the tests themselves. Labor law consequences were not planned.

The Federal Police do several times a month without notice and concealed so-called real tests so that could be detected error and shut down. “The results will not be made public,” said Fraport spokesman Holschier. In significantly longer intervals there were also at national and EU level such checks of controls.

For the actual training of the staff of the passenger checks are after Holschiers words 196 hours required , The Federal Police formulate the requirements and take on the final test. According to the new re-training lasted for eight to ten hours.

The “Bild am Sonntag”, the EU Commission threatens to classify the airport as “non-Schengen airport” should not grab the measures. Then air travelers in Frankfurt would undergo when entering other EU countries another security screening. Industry experts believe this only in extreme cases likely.

In February the Frankfurt Airport CEO Stefan Schulte dpa had said that new technology could accelerate the control and make it more enjoyable. He referred about a novel body scanners, which could also detect non-metallic, potentially dangerous objects and would make the scanning of passengers unnecessarily.

 
  (dpa / HA)