Napolitano Says Tighter Airport Security For Holidays
If you're flying this holiday week, you may see tighter security measures...more officers and bomb sniffing dogs, full body scanners , and pat down searches.
Since the alleged underwear bomber tried to blow up a plane over Detroit a year ago, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano tells W-W-J News they've accelerated and expanded the development of new technologies in our airports.
"We have been working, obviously, not just within the airports on new technology, but also on better information collection and sharing about passengers so that our efforts can be more intel based as we move through and move up to two million passengers a day safely through U. S. airports."
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WWJ Newsradio 950's Greg Bowman talks with Napolitano.
Napolitano says they reached agreements with 190 countries around the world on aviation security, recognizing that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab got on a plane in Nigeria, then transferred in Amsterdam on his way to Detroit. He's headed for trial on terrorism charges.
