Full body scanners use millimetre wave technology to detect both metallic and non-metallic objects. These full body scanners incorporate advanced technology and are meant to replace physical frisking at the airports where passengers can move from the check-in lounge to the Security Hold Area (SHA) of the airport without having to spend long time in queue. The scanners detect the size, shape, and location of objects concealed in body cavities or organs as well. Unlike metal detectors, full-body scanners can detect non-metal objects, which are hard to detect with the conventional door frame metal detector (DFMD), such as narcotics, plastic explosives, and prohibited or illegal objects made of substances like rubber that cannot be detected by metal detectors.
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Sources within Delhi Airport and its security establishment have said that the report on the trial of the body scanner has been submitted to the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) and to the Ministry of Civil Aviation who would take a further call on what the next steps would be.Ī full body scanner is a device that detects objects without making physical contact. Therefore, the body scanner machine is not being used anymore.” There were several issues that emerged during the trial phase the machine was throwing up several black spots when a person was passing through the body scanner and in such a case, the machine was not meeting the purpose for which it had been brought into service. A source in the security establishment of the Delhi airport told The Sunday Guardian, “The body scanner trial has not been much of a success so far. Sources both within the security establishment and officials at the Delhi Airport confirmed to The Sunday Guardian that the lone body scanner machine that was roped in for trial at Delhi airport’s Terminal 2 is currently not being used and is lying idle inside the terminal building. The security agencies handling security at the airport have raised multiple concerns over the system not being able to detect several objects and some “black spots” coming through the machine during the trial phase. NEW DELHI: The full body scanner trial that began at the Delhi International Airport in June this year has given unsatisfactory results.
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