NEW APPROACH TO AIRPORT SECURITY

New Approach TO Airport Security

Abstract

September 11, 2001, led to renewed importance on airport security in the United States and other countries. Before the disaster, government strategy led to a suboptimal stage of security. The fundamental difficulty was not simply the use of private security firms, but rather the dependence on airline financing and poor Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) oversight. After 9/11 a federalized security system was put in place. The current system of tightened security is substantially more costly and should be evaluated in terms of its cost-effectiveness compared to a public-private approach.

Introduction

The awful events of September 11, 2001, galvanized the boss and legislative branches of the government government to proceed rapidly to evolve an aerodrome security system that would supply a higher grade of security. There were alternate courses of activity available. The territory could improvement the present system, shift the whole responsibility to aerodrome managers, or federalize the security system.

Upgrade Present System

The simplest course of activity was to change the present system by upgrading the value of the service. The FAA could take the lead and need the airlines to squeeze their contracts with the personal security firms to charter completely trained screeners, to run strict backdrop checks, to need more teaching, and establish a solid interior review system. The FAA itself could be needed to establish and vigorously enforce higher screening standards. Withering fines or dismissal could be levied for malfunction of the personal firms to rendezvous the standards that would be subjected to continuous testing.The feeling of the Congress, although, was to question the use of personal screeners, especially Argenbright, whose past presentation did not invoke confidence. Moreover, conviction in the oversight capability of the FAA was shaken by the GAO's and other reports on the agency's performance. Further, the precarious economic situation opposite the airlines directly next 9/11 did not bode well for their capability to sustain the much higher costs that squeezed screening would entail.

Consequently, this alternate procedure of increasing the grade of aerodrome security was rejected. Others would then have to be considered.

Airport Management of the Security System

Changing the focal issue of command to aerodrome managers, in alignment to establish a completely incorporated system, was also a possibility. This alternate probable would have proceeded the regulatory function of the FAA, but it would deal exactly with airports that would be ascribed with the whole security function.Airport managers could agreement with personal security firms or they could evolve their own security forces. They would be responsible for screening and for commanding all access to the airplane and to the aerodrome itself. Airports would have to investment the security procedure, with or without government aid.

Airports, although, would still be probable to consider only the benefits to them of intensified security, other than the broader social benefits. Their foremost anxiety would still be the convenience to their customers and the pleasantness of the aerodrome natural environment other than a tighter, more rigid screening system that would inconvenience the ...