Airport trial of a system for the mass screening of baggage or cargo

Gordon Bennett; Richard Sleeman; William R. Davidson; William R. Stott

doi:10.1117/12.189185

6 October 1994 Airport trial of a system for the mass screening of baggage or cargo

Gordon Bennett, Richard Sleeman, William R. Davidson, William R. Stott

Proceedings Volume 2276, Cargo Inspection Technologies; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.189185
Event: SPIE's 1994 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1994, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

An eight month trial of a system capable of checking every bag from a particular flight for the presence of narcotics has been carried out at a major UK airport. The British Aerospace CONDOR tandem mass-spectrometer system, fitted with a real-time sampler, was used to check in-coming baggage for a range of illegal drugs. Because of the rapid sampling and analysis capability of this instrument, it was possible to check every bag from a flight without delay to the passengers. During the trial a very large number of bags, from flights from various parts of the world, were sampled. A number of detections were made, which resulted in a number of seizures and the apprehension of a number of smugglers.

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Gordon Bennett, Richard Sleeman, William R. Davidson, and William R. Stott "Airport trial of a system for the mass screening of baggage or cargo", Proc. SPIE 2276, Cargo Inspection Technologies, (6 October 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.189185

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