Thomas Latt
Thursday 15th May 2014
Interpol welcomes AirAsia onboard
AirAsia is to pilot Interpol's I-Checkit system to
screen the passports of passengers against the world police body's
Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database.
AirAsia will become the first airline to integrate I-Checkit with
their own systems during the passenger check-in phase across its entire
international network.
Interpol's database contains more than 40 million records from 167 countries.
Should a passenger's passport register a positive match against the
database, AirAsia has procedures in place that will refer the passenger
to local authorities.
Interpol's procedures would simultaneously be engaged to notify all relevant Interpol National Central Bureaus worldwide.
Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble said: "Airlines will no
longer have to depend solely on countries screening passports to keep
passengers safe from terrorists and other criminals who use stolen
passports to board flights.
"They will be able to do it themselves."
Currently, less than 10 countries systematically screen passenger
passports against Interpol's Stolen and Lost Travel Document database,
with approximately four out of every 10 passports on international
flights not screened against Interpol's database.
Thursday, May 15, 2014
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