Originally Posted by
PhlyingRPh
most of the time, getting local LE involved in alterations w/ TSO's results in the TSA backing away from an unreasonable request or position. I'd be screwed if they had their own police force!
You don't take the position, that
PresRDC did, that local police are becoming more hostile and militant, then? Sounds like you'd prefer them coming to the checkpoint over a TSA police force.
Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
So competent TSA employees who use sensitive aircraft instrumentation to crawl up the sides of airplanes, screeners who interrogate people for checks and other cash instruments, screeners who can't identify a TWIC or Passport Card, these are the people you want to train as LEO's?
REALLY?
No, I didn't say that. They can recruit their own police force and send them off to an academy for training. There's a huge pool of people out there that want police officer jobs. Some of those could include existing TSA employees. If local police are becoming more hostile and militant, as
PresRDC states, wouldn't that then be a way to work around dealing with local police?
Originally Posted by
Wally Bird
The same kind of quality training the screeners get you mean ? Yep, no militancy or hostility in that group fer sure.
Federal police officers get sent off for a 16 week course. Do the TSA screeners get that much?