The Office for Transportation Security (OTS) is experimenting on a
scheme in which passengers found with a lone bullet in their luggage
would be allowed to board their flights after surrendering the bullet.
This is meant to finally end the tanim bala or bullet-planting phobia
at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, according to Bienvenido
Denros, OTS team leader at the NAIA Terminal 1.
Denros said last Monday that the new rule is still in the
experimental stage and would apply only if one live bullet is found in
the luggage of a departing passenger, especially elderly people and
overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
He clarified that if they find a fully loaded bullet magazine or
several bullets inside the luggage, the passenger would be apprehended.
He said once the X-ray machine at the departure area detects only one
live bullet in the luggage, the OTS inspector will ask the passenger to
view the X-ray monitor to look at the bullet without anybody touching
the subject luggage.
Denros said the inspector would then ask the passenger to get the
bullet from the bag and surrender it to the OTS and the passenger would
be allowed to board his plane without any interrogation or even charges
of violating the law.
“We ask them (passenger) if you still want to leave. If they say yes,
then we will ask them to open their luggage and get the bullet and
surrender it to us, then we will let them go,” Denros explained.
Source: Philippine Star
Photo Credit: Philippine Daily Inquirer
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