Note that Sanford airport is not Orlando International. They are 2 seperate airports. I saw a newsclip on this and they showed OIA, not Orlando-Sanford Intl
—Plans are under way for a national inspections policy and officers from a field office in Tampa will perform quarterly visits to the airport to sample and witness data entries, the report stated.—
If the visits are announced in advance, they may be ineffective against hardened cheaters. They need to be random, unanounced, surprise inspections. They also need “blind audits”, i.e. undercover agents posing as passengers.
Another tentacle in the Puerto Rico connection? Odd how there wasn’t any guesses as to why they were doing this.
Seems like security is taking a back seat to self esteem.
I love reading news out of Florida.
/sar
Not having been at this duty station, here's a scenario where I could certainly see this happening:
Ag Inspectors come in Wed and discover that this survey data from Tuesday either was lost or wasn't completed. They call HQ and tell the sup. Sup tells them if they can't find it, to either survey additional people Wed and enter the data as Tuesday's or "Just make something up". Also sounds like a trainee who hadn't been to academy entered some data on the sheet too.
The perfect answer from the sup? No. A breach of National Security? No.
These aggies better hope the sup gets canned and they can get along with the new one, or I know 5 inspectors who will be assigned to the 0200-0900 six day a week airport shift, regardless of how many flights may actually be scheduled. Not a good move on their parts.
Calls placed to the Transportation Security Administration by The Associated Press were not immediately returned Saturday.
CBP PING, fellas, was that part great or what? Maybe they can call INS next...
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
There is no required number. Most likely, the Port Director or an Assistant Port Director made a port policy requiring a certain number of screenings.
they were given stacks of forms, called IO25s
No such form exists. The form is a CBP Form 6059b "US Customs Declaration". The information from this form is then entered into TECS under the IO25 function.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, inspectors at the 324 U.S. ports of entry have been tasked with identifying and stopping foreign criminals, smugglers and terrorists among the 1.1 million visitors to the U.S. each year.
In reality, we've been tasked with this since around 1900 and each year we screen about 500 million visitors.
CBP's standard of clearing each foreign flight within one hour means arriving passengers are often screened within a minute or less.
No such standard exists.
The whistleblowers also complained that very few airline crew members were subjected to secondary searches since they tended to pass through the custom check as a group.
Again, this is most likely a port policy and is contrary to regulations. At my port, crew members are screened separately and subject to the same inspections as the passengers.
One of the many problems with CBP is “Port Policy”. Headquarters will institute regulations, and then fails to enforce it, leaving each port to decide how and when to enforce that regulation or law.