Groped at the airport: What to Expect screened in India
Almost every week there is a new report by an injured passenger checkpoint security in the United States. Crying to be searched in the dark or too rough or dislike of being touched in an area where the sun does not shine is listening to the media. All this for what? Claim that airport security is too invasive? This is because you are elderly white middle, you might not be a threat? And it made me think how many tourists come to India every day, unaware of what awaits them at the end of their journey in the exotic land of camels, mangoes, and airport police really tricky.
Unlike the TSA officers stationed at all U.S. airports, ranging from overweight to less educated, India’s airports, patrolled by honest to goodness, well-educated Indian police. Dressed in the uniform standard khaki-colored shirts with pleats high net Pant, each surmounted by a British army green or blue beret, male and female officers of the police in India take their work very seriously . Many officers carry guns, machine guns still wearing a pretty scary picture comes from a country where our agents POLICE printed in large letters on their jerseys as a scare tactic. But I always found the police at airports in India to be cordial and both male and female, incredibly beautiful.
What can you expect from a security
Passengers departing on international flights from India will be diverted to airport security immediately after clearing immigration. Passengers departing on domestic flights in India will be sent to security beyond selling tickets.
At this point the women are separated from men. Individual lines form as they move toward the metal detector.
All hand luggage is placed in the X-ray removable cover. Each bag is necessary to the security provided by the label attached to an airliner. Passengers can keep the shoes, belts must leave. Laptops must be removed and placed in individual containers and camera batteries, all jewelry, coins and other metal objects.
Metal detectors in India, it seems, are very sensitive, like all the passengers start the alarm.
Women: An official of the woman will guide you around the room with the curtains hanging improvised in which a physical inspection will occur. Women are subjected to more invasive searches (some call it groping, while others consider the search), just touching the top and bottom. Men are not present.
Inevitably there is a foreign tourist on his way out of curtains into tears, sprinted to his girlfriend in a scene that follows a uniform format. The girl is usually young, maybe late teens to early twenties. She clings to his girlfriend in a desperate act, which show the female officers that she was offended beyond belief. Her boyfriend tries to appear in control, safely led him to collect his luggage, so they can go beyond security without creating a big stage. And as if to go for Oscar gold, it will try to mumble about how the research was devastating to omit the part where her boyfriend had violated the same areas a few hours before with no complaints of the other sex.
Men: After a walk through the metal detector you are agitated by an officer makes a physical search of the body. Hands, legs apart, research usually moves quickly and without much connection to “private parties”. There is little verbal communication. If the staff is curious about something, he will keep his hands until the passenger area to provide an explanation or to show an object or region.
Does not take much to draw a smile or the swing of India everywhere principal male officers as long as you move quickly, following all directions.
After the search, passengers are directed to collect their belongings and move to the boarding area. Security luggage tag will be stamped by an official of the end of the line.
What is different about airport security in India?
Security in the United States has moved closer to European standards and frequent attacks by Indians. Tourists from the United States or other Western countries who do not travel often, it can still be amazed at the sight of guns, usually separate lines, and the degree of physical contact displayed by security agents. All other procedures that are common screening techniques used around the world.