I've said it before and I'll say (shout) it again - <a href="http://www.imagingauto.com/bg.htm" target="_blank">BOARDERGUARD !!!</a>
E.g. a colleague of mine recently ran a trial using a BG unit, at the check-in desk of an airport in a Caribbean country ( renowned for having lots of human 'drug mules' ). When the check-in for the flight to London opened, almost unbelievably, the very first passport that was presented and analysed by the BG unit turned out to be a forgery ! - I kid you not - The pax was then led away by the 'authorities' for a chat........ and it then transpired that the flight most unusually suffered 60 no-shows - now I wonder why that was, uhm ?!
Indeed I mentioned this a while back, see: <a href="http://www.pprune.org/cgibin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=017000&p=" target="_blank">Drugs bust at Gatwick</a>
UK Gov are supposed to be funding a trial (valued at £5m) courtesy of Qinetiq (the commercial division of DERA) - and the sooner the better.
Yours truly has but a lot of work into the proof of concept of this technology and it's a great bit of kit, it's very versatile, and can be integrated into numerous other systems too - e.g. you can run you Res/Check-in system in parallel on it, and / or have it feed data to the 'security services' for profiling !
For some other threads where I've covered this equipment, see also: <a href="http://www.pprune.org/cgibin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=016403&p=" target="_blank">BALPA say: Anti-terrorist cockpit doors 'dangerous'</a> and <a href="http://www.pprune.org/cgibin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=016107&p=" target="_blank">BA Pilots to have stun Guns !!!!!!!!</a>
Ps. Some wag came on here the other day with a 'handle' very similar to mine (they were using ' CashDrive' ) and made a post about the security procedures being used at a certain UK airline. I'd just like to set the record straight and point out that the post in question, now living in the Administration forum, was
NOT made by me !