More small airfield security?

[Phil Space]

From the Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=425041&in_page_id=1770

The man in charge of reviewing terrorism laws is to demand a security crackdown at small airfields amid fears militants could use them to enter the country.

Lord Carlile of Berriew will call for tighter checks on executive jets arriving from overseas at dozens of provincial airstrips.

In a report to ministers, he will outline how a loophole in flight notification rules could help terrorists slip in unnoticed.

Under present regulations, the authorities are told only about the last place an aircraft took off from and not its original point of departure.

This means that an aircraft that takes off from the Middle East or Pakistan and stops briefly in Paris is listed only as coming from France.

The Liberal Democrat peer says the risk is most acute at small airfields where scrutiny by the police and immigration services is less intense.

'In my view, we need to retain a high level of vigilance,' he said.

There are 145 licensed airfields in the UK. And there are thought to be dozens more unlicensed airstrips used for private flying.

[h73kr]

but it's in typical Daily Mail speak deliberately worded to enrage and enflame, well, Daily Mail readers. :rolleyes:

[ShyTorque]

Sad thing is, if it happens, guess who will be paying?

[Alvin Steele]

Never mind terrorists.
I often worry about the security at my home field because of the threat of chav vandals and also.........keeping in the spirit of The Daily Mail.......the threat of a gypsy invasion (and I don't mean a Tiger Moth fly-in)
The car park area is easily penetrated after dark, and once they are in, they can be a bit of a bugger to move on.

No I'm not Richard Littlejohn.



Tim

[niknak]

Take a look at your "home airfield" and if you decided that you need ed to get access to your aircraft when no one else was around, how would you do it?
It's the same concept as if you'd lost your house keys, how would you gain access to your home?

To surround your airfield with security staff, fencing and razor wire would be prohibitively expensive and you wouldn't consider paying a penny towards the cost, yet some whine and whinge about the threats presented by the boogyman and his cohorts...

You can't have it both ways...

[Alvin Steele]

Take a look at your "home airfield" and if you decided that you need ed to get access to your aircraft when no one else was around, how would you do it?

Errrr......not a problem cos a don't have a plane.
As for chipping in for security, I wouldnt mind.....anything to keep the pikey's away from my play area, let the bleeding heart liberal left brigade look after them;)
Right......where did I put my Daily Mail?.......ah, there it is next to my Union Jack and Doctor Martens:rolleyes:

[Captain Smithy]

Bloody typical Daily Mail. Trust them to print something like that.:rolleyes:

[BillieBob]

I'm obviously missing something here - exactly which part of the quoted report is inaccurate, and why?

[Phil Space]

I'm obviously missing something here - exactly which part of the quoted report is inaccurate, and why?

The answer is none!
He is fair and balanced.
Alexander Charles Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, QC (born 12 February 1948) is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.

Alex Carlile is the son of Erwin and Sabina Falik (Polish immigrants) and was brought up in north Wales and Lancashire. He was educated at Epsom College and King's College London. He was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1970, and became a QC at the relatively young age of 36.

He was created a life peer in 1999, as Baron Carlile of Berriew, of Berriew in the County of Powys. He is a barrister and was previously a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire from 1983 to 1997. Carlile was the first Member of Parliament to campaign for the rights of transexuals.

Lord Carlile of Berriew acted in 2005 as the independent reviewer of British anti-terrorist laws, advocating the development of legislation in conformity with provisions of the Bush government's USA PATRIOT Act. Among those civil liberties targeted included the right to a trial, the requirement that charges be issued against the imprisoned, and limits on government wiretapping of citizens.

The Director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti, called his continued support for control orders "disappointing" in a February 2006 press release condemning the introduction of control orders by the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005. The press release said that this had led to the railroading of significant human rights. [1]

According to the Register of Lords' Interests, Lord Carlile of Berriew is inter alia an advisor to Mr. R. Hobson; a paid director of 5 Bell Yard Ltd. and the Wynnstay Group of agricultural feed manufacturers, agricultural goods merchants, and fuel oil distributors; a Deputy High Court Judge; a member of Council at JUSTICE, the British section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ); and a trustee of Nuffield Trust, a UK health care think tank. He became President of the Howard League for Penal Reform in 2006.

Lord Carlile of Berriew is a practising barrister and head of Chambers of 9–12 Bell Yard barristers' Chambers, one of the leading criminal Chambers in England.

[IO540]

Typical Daily Mail scare story - they print something every day designed to enrage their housewife readers.

This one comes up regularly - ever since that **** of a pilot took some journos from Bournemouth to some place in France in his piston twin a few years ago, and they duly reported how they managed to land and vacate without any checks.

It's pointless for the authorities to worry about this. It's dead easy to enter the UK by boat, anywhere away from a major port.