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Since 1998, aviation security of Domodedovo International Airport has been ensured by Domodedovo Airport Aviation Security service in the following areas:
- Assurance of security on the territory of the airport complex;
- Inspection of aircraft, passengers, aircraft crew members, ancillary personnel, luggage, and hand luggage;
- Inspection of cargo, mail, and onboard supplies;
- Assurance of the access and internal regime, guarding of aircraft, the airport territory and civil aviation facilities located therein.
Passenger control
Operative security management of the airport terminal and the airport controlled zone perimeter is ensured by the security control center.
Visitors of the airport complex are subjected to entry inspection, profiling, and selective checks. The company takes advantage of the newly deployed “Rozysk-Magistral” information system that helps analyze data received from ticket booking and sales systems, passenger check-in systems at Domodedovo airport, as well as databases of law-enforcement structures.
The airport terminal building is patrolled by cynology specialists with dogs that have undergone special training in identification of explosives.
The terminal halls, production areas, and check-in points are monitored by audio and video surveillance systems around the clock.
Security areas have been organized in front of the terminal building and around other airport facilities. Automotive vehicles are authorized to stop for a short time only in order to load/unload passengers. Parking within the security areas is forbidden.
At the moment, the company is testing an automatic system of video registration of immobile (abandoned) objects that sends alert signals to the control console of the security center operator.
Pre-flight passenger inspection
Each passenger is subjected to careful pre-flight inspection within passenger check-in zones.
The standard inspection technology includes the following mandatory procedures:
- Inspection of passengers using stationary and handheld metal detectors;
- Tactile inspection;
- Inspection of footwear and hand luggage using and X-Ray introscope;
- Manual inspection of small objects and personal items carried in garment pockets.
In addition to standard inspection technologies, in-depth inspection technologies are also used to identify objects and substances forbidden onboard aircraft. For that purpose gas analyzers and X-Ray scanners are used.
Old introscopes used to inspect passengers’ hand luggage have been replaced with newer models.
Manual detectors of explosives and narcotic substances (VaporTracers) are also used. These devices are lightweight, easy to use, and are extremely sensitive to even microscopic traces of explosives and narcotic substances.
X-Ray control systems are installed and successfully operated in each passenger check-in sector. These systems help identify any objects, substances, and weapons, including plastic weapons and explosives, forbidden onboard aircraft, that may be hidden in passengers’ clothes or carried on or inside their bodies.
Peculiarities of these systems:
- They can see objects even on the backdrop of examinees’ densest body parts;
- They emit extremely low radiation doses (not more than 1.0 micro-sievert);
- They can reproduce a full height human image;
- They take a very short time to complete an inspection (not more than five seconds);
- The inspection process is remotely controlled;
Availability of an image archive.
In future, further enhancement of aviation security is planned, as is introduction of automation and information systems:
- Check-in counters will be equipped with document scanners that automatically check their authenticity. Simultaneously, biometric readers will read passenger’s biometric properties and link them to the boarding pass. Special control counters will be equipped with information monitors that enable security officers to gauge how potentially dangerous a passenger is and forward him or her to additional examination, if required.
- Additional monitors will be installed at hand luggage inspection points. They will be able to display suspicious areas of one’s hand luggage whose images will be transmitted from the X-Ray introscope.
Luggage inspection
At the moment, 100% of all luggage pieces are inspected by introscopes that are built directly into luggage conveyors.
To improve inspection quality, enhance operators’ vigilance, and provide on-the-job training, all luggage and hand luggage inspection devices use equipped with software that imitates dangerous enclosures and tests operators of the inspection systems (TIP Net). With the probability determined by the Administrator, the system “plants” dangerous items (more than 10,000 varieties of cold steel, firearms, and explosives) into pieces of luggage and hand luggage. When the operator presses a certain button, the system informs him or her that this was a test and that no such item can really be found inside a passenger’s luggage piece.
In 2006, the company plans to launch operation of the first in Russia automated luggage processing system (a.k.a. the Baggage Sorting System - BSS). The processing capacity of the BSS is 2.5 times that of the currently operated system and amounts to 7,000 luggage pieces per hour. A 100% security assurance technology that encompasses five security control levels – Hold Baggage Screening (HBS) – is integrated into the BSS.
The following modern technologies are used at each of the system’s inspection levels:
- Introscopes that are able to identify explosives;
- Computer tomographs;
- Devices that use the X-Ray diffraction method.
This multilevel system will ensure the maximum probability of identifying weapons and explosives in passengers’ luggage.
Pre-flight inspection of aircraft, cargo, mail, and onboard supplies
Each aircraft parked on the ramp is under permanent video surveillance. Before passengers board the aircraft, its cabin and technical (luggage) sectors are subjected to mandatory pre-flight inspection.
The pre-flight inspection process is videotaped by security officers and subsequently analyzed by technological control specialists.
Crew members are permitted onboard only after verification of their documents, tactile inspection, as well as hand luggage inspection at check-in points.
100% of cargo and mail are inspected using X-Ray introscopes able to identify organic and inorganic compounds, as well as stationary gas analyzers and trained dogs.
A two-level inspection technology is used for onboard supplies (in-flight meals, kitchen equipment and duty free commodities): video control over the packaging process at the in-flight meals factory, as well as when packaged meals are loaded onto automatic elevators that deliver them onboard. It is planned that in future all commodities and supplies will be inspected before they are brought to production and warehousing facilities of the factory, which will help reduce the time required to prepare and board aircraft.
Control over transportation vehicles
“Yantar” radiation control systems installed at the points of entry to the controlled airport area and customs clearance points are integrated into a network and enable the security service to operatively and adequately respond to attempts of illegal relocation of radioactive materials.
The airport uses the hardware and software suite “Potok” which is designed to read license plate numbers of motor vehicles entering the controlled airport area and automatically check them against databases. When an automobile passes a check point its license plate number is automatically identified, entered into a special registry, and checked on account of being listed in various databases, such as, for instance, the operative database of missing vehicles, stolen vehicles, etc.
The check points are equipped with technical means that are used to forcibly stop motor vehicles and prevent unauthorized vehicles from entering the controlled airport area.
Security of the perimeter of the controlled airport area
The controlled airport area perimeter is equipped with advanced engineering and technical devices: a perimeter security alert system, security lighting, and video cameras mounted on the mast of the security control center.
It is planned that the controlled airport area perimeter will be reconstructed using the so called Smart Fence equipped with motion and vibration sensors, anti-sapping systems, and an infrared early warning system.
Domodedovo Airport Aviation Security,
Domodedovo International Airport, Domodedovsky District, Moscow Region, 142015
Tel. +7 (495) 795-38-20
Commercial Services: +7 (495) 795-38-23 |
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