In the US, what is the Department of Homeland Security Charged with? - ✔✔✔-Providing
internal national security for aviation, customs and immigration, the US president, Specific
federal facilities, and the US coastline.
Sensitive Security Information - ✔✔✔-Originally created by the Air Transportation Act of 1974
FAA would share intelligence information with airport operators and air carriers.
Today (Post 9/11)
Expanded to include all mode of thransportation
Information publicly released would be detrimental to transportation security
"Sensitive but unclassified"
Transportation security regulations - ✔✔✔-Title 49, subtitle B, Chapter XII, Subchapter C, Part
1550.1-1550.7 and 1552.1-1552.25
US intelligence agencies and military services conduct most of the nation's intelligence
gathering and early intervention related to aviation security.
What are the 5 steps of the intelligence cycle? - ✔✔✔-direction, collection, processing,
exploitation, and dissemination.
What are the minimum law enforcement requirements for LEO's with airport responsibilities? -
✔✔✔-Be a federal law enforcement officer or a full-time municipal, county, state, tribal or
territorial law enforcement officer who is a direct government agency employee.
Be sworn and commissioned to enforce criminal or immigration statutes.
Be authorized by the employing agency to have the weapon in connection with assigned duties.