August 23, 2007

Airport whistle blowers are fired

With security being at the top of the list for most airports, when a serious breach has occurred you would have thought that the people who let the authorities know would have been applauded, that is if it wasn’t the company that you work for allowing the breaches of security occur in the first place.

The airport in question is the Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Canada. Here it transpires that the private company charged with checking passengers in Garda Security Corp were allowing managers to take over security duties, as a result passengers and luggage were allowed to board planes without being checked by a screening officer.

Officers filed a complaint with the Canadian Industrial Relations Board, which set the ball rolling. Garda Security deny all of the allegations, and suspended three officers in July and have since fired them last week, another officer was fired too.

Garda Security has the contract for 28 airports in Canada, and this issue has brought up a lot of serious questions and is far from over.

Source [Globe and Mail]

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