My sincere apologies for the passionate nature of my response, but I am none none too fond of the greedy, corrupt, filthy, racist and religiously bigoted pigs who are ICTS, and your experience reminded me of my own battle against these diseased tosspots.

The type of thing you describe has been standard practice for at least the last 20 years for ICTS. Your experience is certainly not out of the ordinary, especially if you do not fit the demographic this company is most comfortable with. And BTW, these filthy ICTS pigs are paid for by the airlines, and therefore by you and I, not the UK government.

Actually, what really causes a melt down for them is something that I routinely do, and pay the price for... Namely, boarding a flight in the Middle East or South Asia, arriving at LGW or LHR, going home to have breakfast, a shower, saying hello to parents, etc, then returning to the airport a few hours later for my flight home to the US. Upon returning to the airport, it is necessary to have a LHR/LGW issued BP to get through the security checkpoint. When ICTS realize that you have left the airport (they see an onward boarding pass issued in KHI or DXB or wherever), they tend to freak out. I've been accused by these greedy, disgusting creatures of being a terrorist, of testing the system and illegally leaving the airside portion of the airport by going to my own home IN MY OWN COUNTRY for three hours!

Of course, if you know the history of ICTS, it's ownership, the corruption, the incompetence, it's links to international state terror and it's links to individuals that have gotten away with spying on the US, you will learn exactly what sort of filth you are dealing with and why this company and it's scum leadership needs to be eliminated by any means necessary. These are nasty, nasty people.