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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Industry Talk: Garda World Promoting Canadian Model For Airport Screening In The US

Filed under: Canada,Industry Talk — Tags: , , , , , — Matt @ 2:35 AM

Garda estimates that the U.S. airport security clearance market is worth US$3.5 billion a year. The Montreal-based company hopes to gain its first U.S. airport contract within two years.

What I thought was startling was Garda’s numbers on how much this market is estimated to be worth. $3.5 billion a year is no small potatoes. No wonder they are lobbying the US to jump on board with private screeners at airports.

I imagine security companies in the US will be very much in the business of capturing market share as more and more airports opt for screener/security privatization. –Matt

 

Garda wants to convince Washington to adopt Canadian model for airport screening
By Sylvain Larocque
06/15/2012
Garda World wants to convince Washington to imitate Canada by giving private security companies control of screening at airports.
In the United States, the job is generally performed by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees, while in Canada the work is subcontracted to companies like Garda, the industry leader in airport pre-clearance screening.
At its annual meeting on Friday, Garda CEO Stephan Cretier criticized the TSA, pointing to a House of Representatives committee report published last November that concluded the federal agency was ineffective as at least 25,000 security breaches have taken place in the 10 years since it was launched.

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Industry Talk: Privatizing Airport Security

“Again, it’s because you can fire a bad contractor, but you can’t fire the government. I think TSA stands for Thousands Standing Around.” -John Stossel

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   This is a no brainer coming from our side of the house, and I salute John Stossel for calling it the way he sees it. I brought up three interesting informational pieces on airport security, and the reasoning behind going the private route.  For one, it works, and number two, it is what the Israelis do.

   I know, I know, we have a much larger airport system in America than the Israelis do.  But we must look hard at what we are doing, versus what others are doing, and ‘build a snowmobile’ out of the thing.  Privatizing airport security is just one component of the strategy, and using what we can from the Israeli and European models is essential. By the way, I love the quote that Stossel put together up top. lol-Matt

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O’Reilly Tonight: Privatize the TSA

By John Stossel

January 5, 2010

I’ll go on O’Reilly tonight to talk about the ridiculous new flight rules from the TSA .

Before my last flight, right after Christmas, security officials patted me down. I was wearing shorts. But they patted down my bare legs. There is a lot of “security” that seems pointless. Jet Blue told us that TSA had ordered them to keep all TV’s off for the whole flight. Everyone had to stay seated for an hour before takeoff — without blankets, pillows or personal belongings on their laps. And so on—you’ve heard about the new rules.

Those rules might help stop a terrorist if he did the exact same thing that Abdulmutallab attempted on Christmas. In reality, I suspect the rules will do nothing but inconvenience millions.

TSA should not exist. Before 9/11, screening was private — private companies, working for government, did the screening. They weren’t very sophisticated, but they did the job. The small knives the hijackers used were not violations of government rules. Neither were unlocked cockpit doors.

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