SECURITY FAILED TO SPOT BREACH FOR TEN HOURS May 21 2004 (UK)
EXCLUSIVE BREAK-IN SPARKS BOMB ATTACK FEARS Scare after raid at giant oil refinery
DOZY guards at the Grangemouth oil refinery took an incredible 10 hours to stumble across a frightening security breach.
Round-the-clock security procedures at the key target for terrorists are constantly monitored by the intelligence agencies, due to its devastating explosive potential.
MI5 regularly conduct checks and risk assessment exercises and security patrols drive around the perimeter of the massive petrochemical site.
But they failed to spot where raiders cut the wire fence and removed two bollards before driving in a van and stealing £20,000 worth of steel pipes.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14260582&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=security-failed-to-spot-breach-for-ten-hours-name_page.html
I think this is proof that "private" security can not be the capitalist panacea to security concerns in this day and age. The requirements are not high enough, and neither is the pay.
Although this happened in the UK, if something is THAT dangerous [nuke plants etc], then they need to be guarded by National Guard troops with orders to fire.
The fact that our refineries are still guarded by
private firms is proof we are not serious about protecting ourselves.
At the very least [knowing the military can not be everywhere], local police/sheriff officers could be hired off-duty for an extra job by these locations, as is commonly done throughout the US in other venues like grocery stores and for private traffic control.
Workers Say They Are Underprepared to Detect Bombs in Cargo
By Jim Hoffer
(New York-WABC, May 20, 2004) — This story begins with an air cargo worker who's been fired after she refused to become a human bomb detector.
Her story exposes a dirty little secret about airport security -- a secret Jim Hoffer has been investigating.
A worker at Starbuck's gets more training for making espresso's than some cargo workers get for detecting explosives. Two cargo workers tell us they were trained to be bomb screeners in just a couple of hours and then given an ultimatum (snip)
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/investigators/wabc_investigators_052004cargo.html
I didn't realize the crack security teams involved were made up of
LAUREL AND HARDY
AND
THE THREE STOOGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHEESH!