Airport Security Officers Compete Against Each Other to Make money Bonuses [Security]

The Washington Post wrote an enticing article concerning the TSA and the personal security firms looking to replace them. The Post found that workers of the personal firms compete against each other in airport security-related games to win cash.

It’s a form of office ” March Madness” -style tournament and the rewards are quite lucrative. One private airport security firm says:

” The bonuses are pretty handsome,” Berry said. ” We’ve to be good – equal or better than the feds. So we work at it, and we incentivize.”

Some games are simple: finding illegal items and explosives in carry-on bags. Others are a tad tougher, like picking locks on luggage or spotting fake would-be terrorists in security videos.

The idea of rewarding airport security officers isn’t a terrible notion, unless said workers exploit the system and check out to earn as much bonuses as they’re able to by needlessly searching as many luggages as they could. Which, hm, sounds so much more possible now that I’ve said it.

To be clear, this isn’t the TSA doing this but rather the personal security firms who replace the TSA (with TSA’s blessing). It makes me think that our entire airport security system needs an overhaul and not everything is the TSA’s fault. Read the total report at the Washington Post . [ Washington Post ]

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