I always walk into the security check area with the attitude that I will treat the staff with respect, the only place that I don't get this respect returned is in the UK.............
I can't understand why this should be when security staff in the rest of Europe treat the crews with respect.
I can only offer the theory that the minority of UK security staff that act in this way are simply under achiving, lazy people who have no future, and no ability to control the course of their lives, their reaction is to take out their shortcomings on anything that represents authority by using to the full the little power they have. Hence the Captain is a prime target for abuse.
To me the situation reflects the very low quality of the security management in the UK, the peope who I have the most respect for are the majority of UK security staff who do the job properly despite the pressure they must get to abuse their power from the under achievers and the lack of appropriate supervision and direction from the poor management.