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Screening slows down the methods used to move passengers through the airport, and also increases costs

• True

• False

Screening procedures must be effective, but they must also operate within the constraints imposed by airlines and authorities who can influence the way in which airports are run.

• True

• False

Equipment and crew baggage are exempt from airport screening measures

• True

• False

Screening procedures are rarely, if ever, as extensive, thorough and time-consuming as security man- agers would like them to be.

• True

• False

What is the main purpose of airport screening?

• Searching for weapons, explosives, and other prohibited items.

• Communicating threats to the national level to ensure they are dealt with in time.

• Establishing if it is safe to admit a given person, package or item of baggage into the airside.

• Removing deportees, detainees and terrorists from the airport limits.

Which of the following is an example of a piece of screening equipment?

• Millimeter tomography systems

• Computed wave scanner technology

• Explosive vapour resonance

• Explosive particle detection technology