Originally Posted by
SW7London
Interesting titbit! Would have thought the protection team (Met) would have been able to speak one of their Heathrow colleagues and liase with BA if necessary?
Does HAL supervisor add much value or just sign off a piece of paper?
Rank and file HAL staff can't let people enter T5 without passing via the metal detectors, and presumably the Protection team do have bits of metal on them. The supervisor was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the Secretary of State was running late anyway.