Post by Shuftin on Sept 2, 2006 14:30:10 GMT -5
2006-09-02
ORLANDO, FLORIDA – The Transportation Security Administration in Orlando on Friday fired one security officer and indefinitely suspended two others after an internal investigation into alleged theft from passengers' checked baggage.
TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz said the information about the investigation has been handed over to the Orlando Police Department.
"TSA has a zero-tolerance policy for any criminal behavior in the workplace," she said. "We are also fully cooperating with our partners in local law enforcement and will provide any assistance necessary to ensure a complete criminal investigation is conducted."
The officers, who were not identified in a TSA statement, are alleged to have stolen items from passengers' checked luggage at Orlando International Airport.
Orlando police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones said no arrests were made in the case Friday.
Koshetz said that since the agency was created in 2002, less than one-half of 1 percent of its 43,000 officers has been terminated for theft.
TSA employs 830 officers at Orlando International.
In a test this summer used to measure how well the officers at Orlando International detect explosives, guns and other threats at passenger checkpoints, records show 501 of the security officers flunked.
The TSA said the test was just one method used to evaluate the officers' performance.
The failures represent about 60 percent of those who took the test, known as Threat Image Projection, or TIP, in June.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA – The Transportation Security Administration in Orlando on Friday fired one security officer and indefinitely suspended two others after an internal investigation into alleged theft from passengers' checked baggage.
TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz said the information about the investigation has been handed over to the Orlando Police Department.
"TSA has a zero-tolerance policy for any criminal behavior in the workplace," she said. "We are also fully cooperating with our partners in local law enforcement and will provide any assistance necessary to ensure a complete criminal investigation is conducted."
The officers, who were not identified in a TSA statement, are alleged to have stolen items from passengers' checked luggage at Orlando International Airport.
Orlando police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones said no arrests were made in the case Friday.
Koshetz said that since the agency was created in 2002, less than one-half of 1 percent of its 43,000 officers has been terminated for theft.
TSA employs 830 officers at Orlando International.
In a test this summer used to measure how well the officers at Orlando International detect explosives, guns and other threats at passenger checkpoints, records show 501 of the security officers flunked.
The TSA said the test was just one method used to evaluate the officers' performance.
The failures represent about 60 percent of those who took the test, known as Threat Image Projection, or TIP, in June.