Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Frisking. An evacuee is frisked before being airlifted out of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Frisking (also called a patdown or pat down) is a search of a person's outer clothing wherein a person runs their hands along the outer garments of another to detect any concealed weapons or objects.
Boarding pass of passenger selected for secondary security screening. Secondary Security Screening Selection or Secondary Security Screening Selectee, known by its initials SSSS, is an airport security measure in the United States which selects passengers for additional inspection. People from certain countries are subject to it by default. [1]
Coast Guard petty officers on a VIPR team at the Portland International Marine Terminal, Maine. A Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response team, sometimes Visible Intermodal Protection and Response (VIPR) is a Transportation Security Administration program. Various government sources have differing descriptions of VIPR's exact mission.
AFP The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is soliciting comments about a planned program that would cut down on controversial pat-downs and full-body scanner searches at airports and ...
The controversy over the new enhanced security procedures at U.S. airports is clearly getting more heated each day. FlyersRights.org, a passenger advocacy group, says it has been receiving 1,000 ...
A nun is frisked by a Transportation Security Administration officer at Detroit Metro Airport. " Don't touch my junk " is a phrase that became popular in the United States in 2010 as a criticism of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) patdowns. [1] The word "junk" is American English slang for a man's genitals. [2]
Operating various screening equipment and technology to identify dangerous objects in baggage, cargo, and passengers, and preventing those objects from being transported onto aircraft. Performing searches and screening, which may include physical interaction with passengers (e.g., pat-downs, a search of property, etc.).
Full body scanner in millimeter wave scanners technique at Cologne Bonn Airport. Image from an active millimeter wave body scanner. A full-body scanner is a device that detects objects on or inside a person's body for security screening purposes, without physically removing clothes or making physical contact.