summer holidays are one of the busiest times of the year at any airport including Vancouver's International Airport screening of passengers and luggage inside the terminal has been a mainstay but increasingly the worry is also what happens on the entire grounds of an airport we put into place a number of additional security measures yesterday in light of the Istanbul events and not at liberty to tell you what those are well that give the bad guys some advantage there are a few visible signs but the goal is to create as many obstacles as possible for would-be terrorists
is it's about degrees and partitions of security and the more that you provide or put in the way of the would-be suicide bomber that makes it difficult for them to get to their objective other countries have taken some extraordinary security measures many of them have learned their lesson the hard way in Moscow in 2011 a suicide bombing in the arrivals terminal killed 37 people now travelers go through security checks before they even get to the airport buildings in 2007 two men in a jeep packed with propane canisters tried to smash into Glasgow Airport concrete barriers
prevented them from killing people inside there are now steel barriers lining the road to prevent similar attacks Israel's ben-gurion International Airport is considered one of the safest in the world security checks start about three kilometers away from the building and uniformed and plainclothes officers are in constant patrol there are at least 12 layers of security still there are no guarantees you secrete new threats new vulnerabilities where a suicide problem may even try and attack one of those checkpoints where people a bank job so airports are constantly evolving and trying to stay one step ahead of
the threats increasingly foregoing a one-size-fits-all security approach in favor of a more tailored system depending on the airport and the gathered by security officials Miura Baynes CBC News Vancouver
