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Attitude of some Govt. officials frustrates security at CJIA

Nov 28, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
We express our concern about an issue that is affecting us at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), and we are seeking your intervention in this by highlighting our problem.
We are working at the airport as airport security, attached to the special constabulary department of the Guyana Police Force.
We feel like we are being made scapegoats. This is because of the unjustified attitude and behaviour of some senior State officials
Our problem with these individuals is that we are being embarrassed by them in the performance of our duty at the security check-point at the airport, in the presence of passengers and this had been going on for several years.
The Aviation and T.S.A rules at the airport state that passengers passing through the security check-point (screening point), are required to subject themselves to security screening – that is to say they must take off their footwear and be pat searched, once those persons are boarding an aircraft.
But whenever these State Officials are travelling and we tell them to follow these procedures, they throw all sorts of remarks and refuse to follow these procedures.
A recent incident involved one of my colleagues and a government officer, who was departing Guyana for JFK airport.
When he approached the screening point, and he was asked to take off his footwear, he refused. He then walked through the metal detector and when approached by my colleague to pat him down, his words were, “I ain’t taking no dam search and he walked away.
This was done in the presence of a number of passengers, who were at the screening point, causing one passenger to say, “That man is breaching security is them does carry the drugs on the plane”.
My colleagues and I looked like dummies that morning, since we think that official should set an example.
Frustrated Airport Security

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