Security-Search-Techniques-Accommodations
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Crew living spaces can
provide hiding places
for smuggled goods, weapons,
and other contraband.
The ship's accommodation
is also a prime target
for individuals who may
want to stash something
dangerous among the belongings
of an innocent and unknowing
crew member.
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Your ship security plan
establishes restricted areas
to prevent unauthorized
access, to protect crew members
and officers from intruders,
and to protect cargo, baggage,
and personal property.
Among these restricted areas
may be navigation and machine
spaces, ventilation and
air conditioning systems,
storage for hazardous
substances and dangerous goods,
cargo spaces, and the
crew accommodation.
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The International Ship and Port
Facility Security Code, ISPS,
identifies various
security measures
that can and should be exercised
to secure restricted areas.
These can include locking
or securing access points,
using surveillance equipment
to monitor the areas,
using guards or patrols, and
using automatic intrusion
detection devices to
alert the ship's personnel
to unauthorized access.
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Besides detailing your
general security procedures,
the ship's security plan also
has specific instructions
for heightened security.
If the MARSEC level
increases, you
may be asked to search
all restricted areas,
including the crew
accommodation.
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Security Level 1 is
the level for which
minimum protective
security measures shall
be maintained at all times.
Security Level 2
is the level where
appropriate additional
protective security
measures shall be maintained
as a result of heightened
risk of a security incident.
Security Level 3 requires
further specific security
measures when a
security incident
is probable or imminent.
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Conducting a thorough
and effective search
requires the proper
equipment and preparation.
Searchers should
always work in twos
and have had adequate
training in search methods.
They also require proper
equipment-- checklists
derived from the ship's
security plan, what
to look for and where
it might be hidden,
flashlights for dark spaces,
cutters to open boxes
or packages, rods to probe loose
clothing for solid objects.
Searchers should wear rubber
or plastic gloves at all times,
and be clean themselves,
so as to leave
the accommodation and its
contents clean and orderly.
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Well, there's nothing hidden
in the compartments or cabins.
Maritime security
consultant Ravi Shankar
helps train officers and crews
in proper search techniques.
You start either at
the bottom, gradually
go to a higher level,
and a higher level,
and a higher level to
the top, to the ceiling.
Or you can start at
the ceiling level,
look at everything
at that level,
and move one level lower--
lower, lower, lower, lower,
lower-- and then you come
finally to the floor level.
Always conduct searches when
the cabin is unoccupied.
Begin by dividing the
room into several zones.
These zones can be vertical--
top third, middle third, lower
third-- or they can
be horizontal-- a box
five feet wide,
floor to ceiling.
The point is to search
everything, literally
everything, in that
particular zone.
So, every item which
comes into that zone
has got to be looked
at, including a bed.
When you get to the bed, you
look at the corners of the bed,
under the bed, over the
bed, under the mattress,
under the pillow, and
between the pillowcases.
All the nine yards,
you go through.
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Remember that, as you
execute your search,
you must think like a person
with something to hide.
Think about where you
would hide something if you
were a smuggler or a terrorist.
Check the contents of
drawers and shelves.
Pull the contents from
racks and duffel bags.
Look inside clothes lockers
and in individual pieces
of clothing.
Look behind all
objects on the walls--
clocks, pictures, vanities.
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We have some knife here.
Searches may turn up
hidden or concealed items
which are suspicious, or
simply items in plain sight
that are potentially dangerous
and have not been identified
by other security procedures.
In either case, the items
are subject to seizure,
and the occupant of the
cabin subject to questioning.
We found a knife
here, for instance.
We need to ask him
how we got this knife,
and what's he doing
with this knife?
So, this becomes part of
your question process.
So, we found this.
Was this checked when
he came on board?
Did anybody find out
that he had one on?
We don't know.
So, if we did not check it
when he is coming on board,
then our search was
not good enough.
Searches may not
necessarily come up
with contraband or
illegal activity,
but they may reveal lapses
in security procedures,
such as that knife with showed
up with nobody knowing about.
That's a lapse that can
be critiqued, fixed,
and the ship's security
plan altered accordingly.
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Most ship security
plans have a provision
for the storage and
quarantining of dangerous items,
whether these items have
been brought aboard illegally
or are simply potential weapons
that need to be controlled.
All dangerous items
are kept separately.
They are not left with
the personnel on board.
As a general rule,
they are all kept
under a separate lock
and key arrangement,
and the key maintained
by the personal security
officer or the captain.
Sometimes even the captain may
decide to keep all these items
under his own jurisdiction.
Oh.
Hello.
Good afternoon.
Ship's policy should
encourage all those boarding
to declare any
potentially harmful items
and, if necessary, to
subject them to quarantine
for the duration of the voyage.
In this program, we've seen how
restricted areas of the ship
can be made secure and
searched if necessary,
concentrating on the
crew accommodation.
Here's a brief review.
Ship's security plans
establish restricted areas
with limited access.
The ISPS Code suggests methods
to secure these restricted
areas, especially during
times of heightened security.
Before you search
any part of the ship,
proper equipment and
preparation are essential.
Search techniques should
be trained and practiced
in drills.
Finding something suspicious
requires an explanation
and possibly the quarantining
of dangerous items
for the duration of the voyage.
Security searches are
a necessary aspect
of safe seamanship.
If they are performed
with courtesy,
and with well-trained
personnel, they
will contribute
to a safer vessel
and increased well being
for everybody aboard.
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