TSA to Join Forces with Airports and Airlines to Create Community Policing Program
News & Happenings
June 18, 2008
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has established a new security initiative aimed at further enhancing airport airside and perimeter security.
The Airside Vulnerability Reduction Team program will strengthen the coordination of work by TSA, law enforcement, airline and airport security partners to reduce vulnerabilities to airport airside operations. Airside is defined as the secure side of the airport, to include the tarmac.
The new initiative will be headed by Willie Williams who has served as federal security director at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport since the start of TSA operations there in 2002. Prior to joining TSA, Williams served as police chief for the cities of Los Angeles and Philadelphia. He has 44 years of law enforcement and federal security experience.
In leading the new project Williams also will serve as TSA's national liaison to law enforcement organizations across the country.
TSA has employed several measures including the Aviation Direct Access Screening Program (ADASP) and Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) operations to enhance perimeter security. Seven airports are currently participating in employee screening pilots.
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