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MANILA, PhilippinesThe Office for Transport
Security (OTS) on Thursday has directed its
airport personnel to require passengers to
present all their electronic gadgets, including
smartphones, on their persons and in their carryon luggage to be subjected to a separate
examination.
The OTS, an agency under the Department of
Transportation and Communications (DOTC),
issued the order on the heels of reports from the
United States that smartphones might be used by
terrorists to carry explosive devices that could
pass through airport security undetected.
Screeners in all our airports were directed to
screen all electronic gadgets, i.e., smartphones,
laptops, iPads, cameras with their batteries
separately by taking them out of their bags and
placing them on a tray for X-ray screening, the
OTS said in a statement issued Thursday.
The OTS said that, previously, only laptops were
taken from passengers bags to subject them to a
separate X-ray screening.
The inspection of electronic gadgets is not a new
policy but a precautionary measure we are
adopting
due
to
persistent
intelligence
information of terrorist attempts to blow up
aircraft
through
gadgets
of
passengers
specifically in flights entering the US, the OTS
said.
Jonathan Maliwat, OTS spokesman, said in a
phone interview the procedure is not new.
Airport security personnel have been checking
the gadgets of passengers through profiling.
Passengers will be required to remove the
batteries from their gadgets and submit them for
separate X-ray screening, unlike in the case of
US-bound passengers who must power up their
smartphones before boarding. This stricter
security measure will be done for both check-in
and carry-on baggage.
Maliwat explained that a separate X-ray screening
would allow security personnel to have an
unimpeded look at the gadgets.
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