Latest news and company developments from Redline
The Ministry of Transport and Aviation in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Airports Authority, has informed the public that effective May 2012, Westminster Aviation Security Services (WASS), a division of the Westminster Group Plc, a British company which operates in forty-six countries worldwide, has assumed responsibility for aviation security.
Additional security measures are being introduced on plans departing from Dublin Airport for other EU airports.
Transport minister Leo Varadkar said aircraft searches, which were suspended 18 months ago, are to be re-introduced.
The US has foiled a plot by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to detonate an upgraded version of the failed 2009 “underwear bomb”, US officials say.
The former head of the Transportation Security Administration, says airport security is broken and should be fixed.
A specialised agency of the United Nations, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) was created in 1944 to promote the safe and orderly development of international civil aviation throughout the world. It sets standards and regulations necessary for aviation safety, security, efficiency and regularity, as well as for aviation environmental protection. The Organisation serves as the forum for cooperation in all fields of civil aviation among its 191 Member States. The ICAO coordinates a global network of Aviation Security Training Centres, known as ASTC’s. Just before Christmas 2011, following a lengthy and in-depth application procedure, Redline was notified that the Secretary General of ICAO, Mr Raymond Benjamin, had approved the application to endorse them as the 23rd ASTC.
Redlines headquarters, the NSTC, will be officially inaugurated by ICAO on 01st May 2012 where the ICAO flag will be handed over during a brief ceremony. For all ICAO purposes the NSTC will become known as ‘ASTC Doncaster’. In practical terms this means that all ICAO security courses will be available in the UK for the first time. Please check back after 01st May for more information regarding the delivery of these courses when a dedicated web page will be available.
The Redline team is enormously proud of this milestone and will proudly fly the ICAO flag alongside its own at the NSTC.
Redline Aviation Security is delighted to announce that from January 1st 2012 we became a corporate sponsor to the Airport Operators Association (AoA).
Redline is the only company in the aviation security sector to sponsor the AoA to this level and brings us in line with other notable companies such as Thales and Selex. We are looking forward to a full programme of support to the AoA in all that it does for the aviation industry in the UK.
For Smiths Detection customers this means access to the Countries leading provider of aviation security training is assured. The National Security Training Centre (NSTC) is fully equipped with a full range of equipment from Smiths that starts with conventional x-ray and Hand Held Metal Detectors going through the full range of ACBX and ETD to security body scanners.
Moving into 2012 and beyond Redline and Smiths Detection are looking forward to providing their customers a service that is second to none in both quality and range of service.
