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3DX-Ray Baggage Scanning to Project Griffin Launched
be Used at Beijing Olympics at Gatwick
The latest generation of advanced Axis-3d® baggage scanning system, from Project Griffin was developed by the City of London Police and formally
3DX-Ray Limited, has been chosen by the Chinese authorities to protect introduced in London in April 2004 as a joint venture between the City
several venues at the Beijing Olympics. and Metropolitan police forces. Its remit was to advise and familiarise
The Axis-3d®represents a fundamental shift from traditional baggage managers, security officers and employees of large public and private
scanning equipment as it displays the image in full 3D, as opposed to the flat sector organisations across the capital on security, counter-terrorism and
2D of conventional systems. This is based around the company’s innovative crime prevention issues.
stereoscopic X-ray camera which takes two views and displays them to match Following its unqualified success in London, Project Griffin is
the requirements of the human eye and brain. This allows staff to see the 3D increasingly being adopted by other police forces, cities and communities
shape of any object and its relationship to other objects in a package. across the United Kingdom. It has also generated interest and acclaim
The system also incorporates a number of additional technological overseas, particularly in the United States, Hong Kong and Australia.
features and provides an unparalleled imaging capability making it “best in As of March 2008 Project Griffin is now ‘live’ at London Gatwick
class” for image quality. It can be used for either automatic or manual Airport, the first airport to join the programme. As a self-contained
inspection and can see with an accuracy approaching that of the width of a policing area, Gatwick is an ideal location for Project Griffin, with all
human hair (100 microns). staff working towards the same goal of maintaining the security and
Axis-3d® also offers advanced materials differentiation which can efficient running of the airport.
automatically colour code objects which contain suspect or “threat” materials – The aim of the police is to build on existing relationships with all airport
such as organics (plastic explosives) and metal (guns and knives). workers, ensuring that everyone feels confident in recognising and
reporting suspicious activity and behaviour. This will be the key to
success for the project. The first Awareness Day for participants focused
on crime and counter-terrorism issues, specifically as they relate to the
day-to-day running of the airport.
Superintendent Robin Smith, Divisional Commander for Gatwick,
said: "Project Griffin is the embodiment of the partnership approach
to protective security. This is an international initiative to assist the
fight against terrorism, and Gatwick Division is keen to support it."
DHS Provides Further Funding
for Syagen’s MS-based
Guardian®
The U.S. DHS Science & Technology (S&T) office has provided a
contract, to Syagen Technology Inc., to implement specific
enhancements to their Guardian Explosives Trace Portal (ETP). This
Sagem Iris Identification System work will further expand the Guardian’s considerable explosives
Selcetd by Oman and Jordan
detection capabilities and provide additional operational features to
improve the usability of the ETP for aviation security checkpoints and
Sagem Sécurité has announced that it will supply to Oman and Jordan other security venues.
identification systems based on iris recognition. The systems will be used for The Guardian ETP is designed for use at TSA aviation security
ID checks at borders. checkpoints, in order to detect and deter suicide bomber threats to
These systems will be deployed at more than 100 sites, mainly at border the traveling public and U.S. aviation assets. The Guardian allows
crossing stations and airports. Border police in both countries will have an for the non-invasive screening of airline passengers, with new
extremely fast and reliable system to check the identity of people entering their levels of accuracy and throughput speed, and without the
territories, calling on databases with previous records of people’s irises. maintenance and operational issues associated with existing trace
Sagem Sécurité’s system can check in virtually real time. detection technologies. Dr. Jack A. Syage, President of Syagen
Sagem Sécurité is the first company to be selected in the Gulf area for the commented, “We greatly appreciate this support from DHS, which
supply of identification systems based on iris recognition. It already provides further validates Mass Spectrometry as the next generation
automated fingerprint identification systems to other countries in this part of technology for use in trace detection of explosives and other
the world. chemical threats in the security field.”
38 April 2008 Aviationsecurityinternational
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