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After being 'randomly selected' again, whilst in uniform, I asked the security person "why do you pick out the crew members all the time". His reply was, "because we have to do a certain number of searches per hour and you guys aren't allowed to complain. It's just easier this way".
Given that this indicates that the selection of people to screen is not random then a letter of complaint should be written.
I rarely venture into threads such as this, but... in order to check the 'randomness', could a union person not do some monitoring of this? That is, watch a checkpoint for a period and see what proportion of aircrew are checked?
Doubtless this would require some sort of approval so as to allow airside access but would this not be granted by the airport operator (rather than the security point operator)?