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Flight attendants protest plan to let non-fliers into the Pittsburgh airport to shop

HUGO MARTIN ON SEP 1, 2017 SOURCE: MCCLATCHY, SecurityInfoWatch.com The Pittsburgh International Airport is about to become the nation's first airport to allow non-fliers through the security checkpoints to shop and dine within the terminals. But American Airlines flight attendants think the new program, set to start Tuesday, is a bad idea that will make it [...]

By |2023-12-01T10:39:55-05:00September 2nd, 2017|News|Comments Off on Flight attendants protest plan to let non-fliers into the Pittsburgh airport to shop

Congrats to the latest IFPO graduates!

  Here are the IFPO's latest graduates. Best of luck in your careers!   Joseph Brown, CPO, Norwalk, OH, USA Akachukwu Opara, CPO, McKenzie Lake, AB, Canada Kim Hefferman, CPO, Scarborough, ON, Canada Margaret Theresa Drew, CPO, Boston, MA, USA Louis Vincent McFadden, CPO, Boston, MA, USA Duressa Bariso, CPO, Calgary, AB, Canada   Find [...]

By |2017-06-30T13:51:52-04:00June 30th, 2017|About IFPO, News|Comments Off on Congrats to the latest IFPO graduates!

Professor tries his hand as a TSA security officer

CHICAGO - MARCH 15: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers staff a checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport on March 15, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Today TSA personnel are scheduled to begin using the Backscatter Advanced Imaging Technology full-body scanners at the airport. Twenty airports nationwide are now using full-body scanners. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) [...]

By |2023-12-01T10:39:54-05:00June 29th, 2017|News|Comments Off on Professor tries his hand as a TSA security officer

Global homeland security market to see growth in 2017-2022

From HomelandSecurityResearch.com 15 years have passed since 9/11, and the global Homeland Security & Public Safety technologies and markets are forecasted to go through major shifts. Counter terror and security markets formerly dominated by the U.S. are now moving to Europe and Asia-Pacific. New and maturing counter terror technologies, such as big data & data [...]

By |2023-12-01T10:37:50-05:00June 9th, 2017|News, Safety|Comments Off on Global homeland security market to see growth in 2017-2022

Will long airport lines of 2016 return this year?

  Painfully long lines at major airports in the US made headlines last year, including Midway Airport in Chicago and the Windy City's other major airport, O'Hare. Criticism was heaped on the Transportation Security Administration, and although their methods appeared painstaking, they also were proven to be effective, as they seized 74 guns in one [...]

By |2023-12-01T10:34:36-05:00March 14th, 2017|News|Comments Off on Will long airport lines of 2016 return this year?

DHS head orders hiring of 10,000 ICE agents

  By Judson Berger Published February 21, 2017 FoxNews.com Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly moved Tuesday to implement a host of immigration enforcement changes ordered by President Trump, directing agency heads to hire thousands more officers, end so-called “catch-and-release” policies and begin work on the president’s promised U.S.-Mexico border wall. Find out how YOU can [...]

By |2023-12-01T10:33:58-05:00February 24th, 2017|News|Comments Off on DHS head orders hiring of 10,000 ICE agents

Homeland Security concerned with “homegrown violent extremists”

Home Security's National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin In the wake of the Orlando nightclub massacre, perpetrated by a radical Islamic terrorist, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently issued this bulletin: In December, we described a new phase in the global threat environment, which has implications on the homeland. This basic assessment has [...]

By |2016-06-23T09:55:05-04:00June 23rd, 2016|News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Homeland Security concerned with “homegrown violent extremists”

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