Aviation Daily on Airports: Police Officers, TSA Offer Views on Screener Badges

To give airport screeners police like badges and uniforms is a grave mistake. You are not only putting the screeners themselves in harm’s way in that they will be mistaken as sworn law enforcement, but you are creating more of a safety risk to the general public.

The public relies on law enforcement to keep them safe, period! It is not fair that because they have mistakenly identified a “screener” as a sworn peace officer that the response to their emergency is hindered, delayed, or flat out ignored due to a lack of proper training.