Certain rules could soon soften in American airports, such as the quantities of authorized liquid or policies surrounding security shoes, while internal security has embarked on a large “questioning”.
“As soon as I arrived, I started to question everything that the Transport Security Administration (ASD) does. I will tell you, the rule concerning liquids, I question it. So, the next big announcement may concern the size of liquids. We think about it, “the secretary of the Department of Internal Security (DHS) Kristi Noem said on Wednesday, according to” The Independent “.
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Only a week after announcing the end of the obligation for passengers to withdraw their shoes during security checks at American airports, the DHS has announced its intention to tackle this second emblematic measure of air transport.
In fact, for almost 20 years, the ASD has limited the quantity of liquid aboard a cabin baggage to 100 ml per container to reduce the risks that explosives have been introduced on commercial aircraft, ABC News reported.
Except that with current technology, including cutting edge scanners which can detect the constitution of a liquid without even getting it out of the bag, Kristi Noem estimated that there would be a way to improve and facilitate the control process, without sacrificing security.
“We examine our scanners, what we have implemented within the TSA, a multilayer control process that allows us to modify some of our safety and control methods so that everything remains safe,” she continued, according to the American media.
The previous week, the DHS announced that travelers would no longer need to withdraw their shoes during the transition to security – a process which greatly slowed down verification and which was no longer justified by modern progress of technology.
This policy had been implemented after a man, Richard Reid, tried to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his shoes during a flight between Paris in France and Florida, only a few months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
