Of course profiling should be used as a main feature of any rounded ,thought out security policy,but the goverment having incubated such ill feeling among several groups in this country are plain scared to do so.Having a fair and just foreign policy(as promised some years ago) instead of slavish adherence to US policy would do more to secure air transport than banning pilots phones or old ladies spec cases. It will now be even harder to carry out our operations on a day to day level,and more time consuming and awkward for the passengers,yet the fundamentals are left unchecked.It is time nettles were grasped and the goverment had the courage to address world politics,immigration,cost cutting and all the other real reasons for these maladies.
As an aside I was told of a group of baggage handlers at a major uk airport two weeks ago who were in conversation with a collegue.they were waiting for their escort to go airside to work and had been in the country for TWO WEEKS. How does this square with with all the hoops we have to jump through all the time with CRC and employment/residence history etc.One collegue has had her application rejected 5 times for a 2 week gap in work history! I cant help but feel that the basics are being overlooked in all the detail.