GAO issues transportation security update
Online Exclusive, Sep 18 2003
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The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) has issued a report outlining security improvements in transportation since Sept. 11, 2001. Here are some highlights of testimony given before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation:
AIR
- Installed bulletproof cockpit doors;
- Hired a federal passenger and baggage screening work force;
- Expanded air marshal force from 32 to several thousand;
- Trained several hundred pilots to carry weapons in the cockpit;
- Required background checks for those who have access to secure areas of the airport;
- Established a 45-day waiting period for aliens seeking flight training; and
- Required 911 capability for onboard passenger telephones.
SEAPORTS
- Established programs to board and inspect high-risk vessels;
- Developed vessel identification system;
- Deployed new mobile gamma ray imaging devices to inspect contents of cargo containers;
- Established the "trusted shipper program;" and
- Deployed U.S. inspectors at foreign seaports based on agreements with 18 countries.
MASS TRANSIT
- Distributed $3.4 million in grants to more than 80 transit agencies for emergency response drills;
- Required security assessments at 36 largest transit agencies; and
- Offered technical assistance to transit agencies on security, emergency plans and response drills.
Want more on transportation security? Visit www.transportationsec.com, home of AC&SS sister magazine Transportation Security.
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