Unit 2: Aviation Security

Procedures to minimise threats to

security

Legislations relating to security

The Aviation & Maritime Security Act is a piece of United Kingdom legislation that
extended the Secretary of State's power to protect ships and planes within the United
Kingdom. This act is an updated continuation of older acts that acted in taking steps to
improve security procedure to minimise effects of a security breach or event.
Every country has their own legislation extending from the global aviation legislation.
UK has its on security acts in place to counter such incidents.
Main idea of Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990

The programme brings together the UKs maritime security regime and the various
international and European initiatives to provide a comprehensive protective security regime
for UK ships and ports.
The aim of maritime security is to detect and deter security threats and take preventative
measures against security incidents affecting ships or port facilities and to protect from harm
passengers, crews, ships and their cargoes, port facilities and the people who work and live in
port areas.
A part of maritime security is also regulated by DfT for all commercial operations with
passenger and cargo carry ships.

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Aviation Security

Maritime Security

The act allows the Secretary of State to declare any harbour a restricted area.
The Secretary may give orders that a restricted area can not be entered or exited by any ship
or individual.

History and Amendments

The Aviation and Maritime Security Act allows the Secretary of State to give directions to any
individual flying an aeroplane in the United Kingdom in order to protect an aerodrome. Said
protection may involve moving the aeroplane in a fashion that is advantageous to the defence
of the aerodrome. Additionally, the act makes it explicitly illegal to intentionally commit any
damages to an aerodrome.

The act primarily consolidates issues from other pieces of legislation and makes explicit some
offences that had originally had been illegal simply through common law (such as ship
hijacking).
It includes amendments to the Aviation Security Act of 1962 and the Merchant Shipping Act of
1970.

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Crime and Security Act 2001,
The Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 was formally introduced into the
Parliament of the United Kingdom on 19 November 2001, two months after the
terrorist attacks in the United States on 11 September. It received royal assent and
came into force on 14 December 2001
The main intention to introduce this act was;

to make further provision about terrorism and security applied to seizure of finances of
suspected terrorist organisations;
to provide for the freezing of assets of suspected organisations;
to customs and excise acquire the information held by public bodies;
to make provision about immigration and asylum with power to detain any non-British
individual in the interests of security;
to amend or extend the criminal law and powers for preventing crime and enforcing that
law;
to make provision about the control of pathogens and toxins, related to trade of weapons
that could cause a wider range of damage;
to provide for the retention of communications data for the purpose of national security;
to provide for implementation of Title VI of the Treaty on European Union; and for
connected purposes.

Security Procedures and Protocols in the Airport

environment

Screening and Searching

All passengers travelling on the flight are searched both via screening
and manual checks.
Female security staff is available. Trained staff checks baggage
scanned and looked for any doubtful item.
The cargo, hand luggage and booked baggage is screened before sent
over to loading on aircraft. There are security marked level 1 to 5 that
represent the type of threat to suspicion over any doubtful object.
Any suspicious item is taken off and is manually searched by staff if not
screening does not satisfy safety concern.

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Equipment

The equipment has improved over the time.

The x-day machines is able to identify any metallic or solid object on
computer screen. Metal detectors are in place for travelling passengers
in addition to manual search checks.
Security cameras are in place visible and concealed locations to
monitor peoples movement.
Specific secured entry exits equipped with computerised access code
locks to monitor staff in-out records.

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Personnel

Uniformed police and antiterrorism guards are on patrol in the

premises.
Undercover officers are also taking rounds disguised as ordinary
travellers.
In addition to screening of cargo and baggage, sniffer dogs are used to
point out any suspicious luggage carrying illegal item.

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Importance

of security check

It minimises the level of threats to security

It meets legal obligation of the institute
Ensures public and staff safety
Improved public confidence

Accounting and Authoring of Hold

Baggage for Carriage by Air (AAA)

Gate AAA Manifest

A manual system of recording onboard hand luggage

Used when computer system may suffer breakdown
Still used in normal practice a precautionary as well as taking account of all hand
luggage
Applies to both passengers and air crew

The paperwork is kept for at least a week for review

Used for references in case of any incident occurs in departed flights
Used in making last minute changes if passenger coming on/off board before
flight departure
Used for enforcing security concerned with hand luggage
Records how many items taken on/off board at any last minute transaction.
Unique tag numbers represent a specified passenger
PSA responsible for maintaining accurate recording