Heathrow airport to deploy full-body scanners, minister says

Tue, 05 Jan 2010

London - London's international Heathrow airport is to deploy full-body scanners within the next three weeks in order to boost security, Home Secretary Alan Johnson announced Tuesday evening. After Heathrow, all the country's airports are to be outfitted with equipment able to detect explosives by the end of 2010, Johnson also said.

Travelers will also be subjected to more frequent searches, he said, whereby London was looking at such controversial methods as "profiling" of passengers.

The measures announced by Johnson come in the wake of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's statement, following the thwarted bomb attempt on an airplane over Detroit on Christmas Day, to review the security measures in place at British airports.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/302247,heathrow-airport-to-deploy-full-body-scanners-minister-says.html.