Chicago IL July 19 2017 Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans was urged Tuesday to abandon plans to “de-certify” Chicago’s $19 million-a-year force of 292 unarmed aviation police officers or risk making a move that would “destabilize the safety” of O’Hare and Midway airports. During the 12 years he spent as a Southwest Airlines skycap at Midway Airport, […]
PHOENIX AZ July 9 2017 — Officials at Sky Harbor International Airport say a situation that closed parts of Terminal 4 has been resolved and they are working to resume normal operations. Sections of the busy terminal were closed for more than an hour Friday evening as police checked out a suspicious item, reportedly near the […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Three transit security officers were honored Friday for helping a rider in need. Back in March, the passenger experienced a seizure and lost consciousness. The driver quickly parked the bus near the Alvarado Transportation Center and a passenger ran for help. Without hesitation, transit security officers Shannon Beltz, Ronald Brown and Alonso Cano ran to […]
Hillsboro OR July 5 2017 As Christopher Neal watched planes fly in and out of the Hillsboro Airport with his wife and young son, a stranger in a gray hoodie caught their eye. With his hood up and hands in his pockets, the man walked from across Northwest Cornell Road toward a barbed-wire fence leading to […]
Calgary Canada July 4 2017 Boarding at the Victoria Park-Stampede LRT station, it didn’t take long to find what they were looking for. Taking one end of the half-full rail car, transit enforcement officers Brian Meanley and Mathieu Young begin asking the late-evening passengers to present their transit tickets — a daily routine in the seemingly […]
HONOLULU HI June 17 2017 The state Department of Transportation has notified the Public Safety Department that state deputy sheriffs are no longer needed at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, according to multiple sources. A letter that DPS got Thursday, and which was obtained by Hawaii News Now, notifies DPS that they are terminating […]
Washington DC June 6 2017 The European Commission and US Transportation Security Administration have announced an “unprecedented” air cargo security partnership between the TSA, the EU and Switzerland. The agreement, which took effect on 1 June, sees the TSA and EU mutually recognising each other’s air cargo security procedures as being of an equivalent high […]
Wichita KS June 2 2017 An 82-year-old woman was arrested and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail this week after she allegedly struck a Transportation Security Administration officer who tried to confiscate an oversized bottle of liquid from a carry-on bag she planned to take on a flight departing from Eisenhower National Airport. The woman, […]
New York May 31 2017 Satisfaction with airport security has risen from last year, according to a survey from Travel Leaders Group. This year, 67.7% of respondents said they were satisfied with airport security, while 17.4% were neutral and 14.9% were unsatisfied. Comparatively in 2016, 63.6% said they were satisfied, 19.4% were neutral and 17% […]
Orlando FL May 31 2017 Police descended upon Florida’s Orlando International Airport Tuesday night in response to a man whom they believed was carrying a gun in one of the airport’s rental car lots. When he was eventually taken into police custody, it was determined the gun was fake. “Gunman in custody,” tweeted Orlando Police […]