Although every day about five thousand people attend Jorge Wilstermann International Airport, the airport became an unsafe site for travelers, families and users of the parking lot before the police assume control and proliferation of anti-social, general manager said yesterday Airport Services Bolivianos (SABS), Anthony Alicastro. Go
or leaving the airport currently involves risks. According to the official SABS have detected two recurrent problems. One in the public area called the airport and other guarantees concerning the airline must provide its users in the protection of luggage deposit.
Parking is the most vulnerable. There are several reports about the theft of accessories vehicles that happen in the parking lot. A feature of these thefts is the speed with which they perform and the ability of thieves to blend in the crowd.
Another problem is the theft of personal belongings from the luggage of travelers. According to the manager of SABS, the baggage is the responsibility of the airline after the traveler leaves his bags and these are deposited in the aircraft. The former
SABS has taken measures to deter criminals is the installation of six security cameras, to expand electronic monitoring circuit.
But the efforts also aim to disrupt the gangs that is presumed to operate at the airport. A clue to tracing the electronic monitoring system, where images are stored daily work of the air station.
Among the serious events reported by some victims are the theft of money, especially migrants who come from savings in the terminal and are approached by people, who offered to guide them. Other less frequent cases of kidnappings "express" ever reported by travelers in the police. Security
Cochabamba airport is the third busiest in the country, after La Paz and Santa Cruz.
Among the security measures that the police have implemented to improve security at the airport is the installation of a stand with four uniformed police. However, it is believed that the number is insufficient for the number of passengers and because these are bound to control the internal area of \u200b\u200bthe airport.
OPEN OFFICE IN AIRPORT
reinforces MoD arms control
Armed Forces should strengthen the control of weapons, ammunition, explosives and fireworks on airplanes after the creation of the Regional Office of Arms Control based at the airport Jorge Wilsterman, yesterday.
The head of this division, managed by the Region Military Javier Castrillo, said that "within the regional plan of military equipment has created this office, because there was a large deficiency in the control and transport of weapons and ammunition. Now they control the transit of weapons within and outside the country. "
Control Department to travel armed civilians and the uniformed men, who before embarking must report the possession of weapons and prove his capacity as a member of the Armed Forces or the Police through a credential.
Although there rules for handling weapons, importation and transfer, the airport was a space with little control by the lack infrastructure and personnel at the air station.
handling of weapons in the country is regulated by the State Constitution, rules of the Ministry of Defence and Supreme Decrees 29534 and 29747, both enacted in 2008. Among the functions that have the Office of Arms Control is to authorize, deny and confiscate weapons or explosive devices that are moved without authorization.
At the airport will monitor the traffic of arms, though not frequent travelers to carry military equipment because the arms often used in land travel around the controls. RIGOROUS
The head of the Office of Arms Control of the airport Jorge Wilsterman, Javier Castrillo, said "now is going to close supervision for the person who wants to carry weapons within the country must obtain a transportation guide Regional War Materials Unit, which is a document that proves to be carrying weapons to municipalities, which may occur in different airports. " The only unit this permission is granted by the Ministry of Defence through the War Materials Unit.
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