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Post by bn12cny on Sept 16, 2017 10:22:17 GMT
In using the Subway everyday in Beijing and living on one of the most busy lines (Batong Line - Balaiqo Station) the security check only takes less than 1 minute to do when you walk into the station, even in the peak hours, you drink your liquid in front of staff, bags in X-ray machine and walk through a metal detector, but it's not 100% guaranteed and I wouldn't like it be introduced in London, it really causes no delays!
Most train lines now have security on, a security guard for every 2 carriages (all trains are walk through), this is good to see - maybe a alternative?
As said before if someone wants to do evil they will whatever the situation, the media jumps on a bandwagon
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Post by M1104 on Sept 16, 2017 12:31:38 GMT
An 18 year old man was arrested in Dover in connection with the incident.
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Post by snoggle on Sept 16, 2017 18:38:06 GMT
In using the Subway everyday in Beijing and living on one of the most busy lines (Batong Line - Balaiqo Station) the security check only takes less than 1 minute to do when you walk into the station, even in the peak hours, you drink your liquid in front of staff, bags in X-ray machine and walk through a metal detector, but it's not 100% guaranteed and I wouldn't like it be introduced in London, it really causes no delays! Most train lines now have security on, a security guard for every 2 carriages (all trains are walk through), this is good to see - maybe a alternative? As said before if someone wants to do evil they will whatever the situation, the media jumps on a bandwagon I am sorry but I still don't see the point. Similarly I don't see the point of plonking police outside stations to stand around trying to look valued whenever there has been an incident. I don't find this remotely reassuring. In a past role I had some involvement in these sorts of matters. Needless to say a very great deal goes on behind the scenes to maintain security. If loads of visible security people made any demonstrable difference there would be loads of them. The simple fact is that they don't really make any great difference. It's for show. I am sure the Chinese regime are perfectly happy to fund all these extra "security" paraphernalia as it has other objectives in terms of tracking and observing its population. Even delaying tube passengers for 1 minute is never going to work. We simply do not have the space for the security equipment or for people to queue. I have to say I am deeply sceptical that a process handling huge numbers of people that takes "only a minute" is effective. London has trialled metal detector loops and drug dogs in stations. They didn't work very well and took up ridiculous amounts of space within confined areas. They ran them at Walthamstow Central and people were nearly backed up to the top of the escalators with a risk that people could not get off the escalator. That's simply dangerous. I was responsible for putting ticket gates into LU stations. We struggled in a lot of places to get a safe and effective layout in many stations because so many of them are space constrained and old buildings are difficult / very expensive to alter. Trying to put in security scanners would just not work.
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