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Criminal record checks are hole in airport security - Huhne
22 July 2008


Mr Chris Huhne

Commenting on the Government-commissioned report on airport security, which calls for compulsory criminal record checks for all airport workers to combat the ‘terrorist insider threat’, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said:

"It is a crazy hole in our airport security that we will do criminal record checks on British employees, but can’t do the same for foreign ones.

"This problem will not be solved by unnecessary and illiberal ID cards. The sooner there is an EU-wide system of criminal record checks the safer we will all be."


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