Originally Posted by
Sunfish
I don’t think people quite understand what “security” means. To achieve true security you require defenses in depth - multiple checks with multi factor (ie different) forms of checks.
An ASIC on its own is useless. It needs to be checked EVERY TIME by someone with armed immediate backup to provide just one level of defense. The second level is to require a valid reason to be in the security zone at all. The third level is physical security of the zone itself - fences, razor wire, alarms.
The ASIC on its own is useless, any idiot with a laser printer and a laminating machine (or better still, screen printing capability) and the imagination to dress the part is in.
What is your background in Police, law enforcement, counterfeiting and or security Sunfish? You seem to have convinced yourself that you know a lot about it.
So you’re proposing someone checks the ASIC at the airport and behind that person checking is some kind of armed security officer? Which department will provide such a service and under what regulation or crimes act would that be implemented? Oh and what would their powers of arrest be and what National IT system would they use to check said ASIC holder’s personal records? (The same check that takes a week or two in order to obtain an ASIC)
All this talk of arming, fences, razor wire, alarms and other security scary stuff is putting me off wanting to visit the airport for the purposes of work or leisure travel.