Drop VIPs’ security check exemption: Mar - Malaya 09.08.2006
NO more "express lanes" for the country’s traveling honorables.
That is, if Sen. Mar Roxas would have his way. The senator yesterday said all VIP’s including legislators and cabinet members up to the chief executive should be stripped of their "frisking privileges" when going through airport security checks amid tightened security precautions in all national and local airports and ports.
Roxas said government officials should be arrested and detained if they resist being bodily frisked and their belongings inspected. "Anybody who tries to pull rank, flashes a badge, or drops important names to evade these security checks should be arrested and questioned on the spot by our airport security," he said.
Roxas said airport security measures should be applied equally to all Filipinos and foreign nationals, including VIPs and their bodyguards. His call will directly affect congressmen who usually fly to their congressional districts and are usually exempted from rigorous body and cargo searches at the airports.
Roxas stressed that all airport security and key personnel must be given the chance to detect explosive materials and components that could be used to make bombs regardless of who tries to bring them in.
He said the breaching of airport security by anti-terror expert Samson Macariola and the embarrassment it caused may turn out to be a life-saving wake-up call for the country’s top security officials and the public at large. – Dennis Gadil
That is, if Sen. Mar Roxas would have his way. The senator yesterday said all VIP’s including legislators and cabinet members up to the chief executive should be stripped of their "frisking privileges" when going through airport security checks amid tightened security precautions in all national and local airports and ports.
Roxas said government officials should be arrested and detained if they resist being bodily frisked and their belongings inspected. "Anybody who tries to pull rank, flashes a badge, or drops important names to evade these security checks should be arrested and questioned on the spot by our airport security," he said.
Roxas said airport security measures should be applied equally to all Filipinos and foreign nationals, including VIPs and their bodyguards. His call will directly affect congressmen who usually fly to their congressional districts and are usually exempted from rigorous body and cargo searches at the airports.
Roxas stressed that all airport security and key personnel must be given the chance to detect explosive materials and components that could be used to make bombs regardless of who tries to bring them in.
He said the breaching of airport security by anti-terror expert Samson Macariola and the embarrassment it caused may turn out to be a life-saving wake-up call for the country’s top security officials and the public at large. – Dennis Gadil
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