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3 Michigan residents arrested by FBI for supporting ISIS

Muse Abdikadir Muse (left), Mohamed Salat Haji (center) and Mohamud Abdikadir Muse (Courtesy of the Kent County Jail) By: Cara Ball WASHINGTON (WXYZ) — Three Lansing residents have been arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham or ISIS. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the [...]

By |2019-01-25T08:22:00-05:00January 25th, 2019|News|Comments Off on 3 Michigan residents arrested by FBI for supporting ISIS

Airport security: TSA workers protest government shutdown

CHICAGO - MARCH 15: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers staff a checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport on March 15, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Today TSA personnel are scheduled to begin using the Backscatter Advanced Imaging Technology full-body scanners at the airport. Twenty airports nationwide are now using full-body scanners. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) [...]

By |2023-12-01T10:39:56-05:00January 11th, 2019|News|Comments Off on Airport security: TSA workers protest government shutdown

‘Mantraps’ have wider use today in business, not just government or military

  There's been a lot of talk over the past few years about mansplaining and manspreading, but mantraps? Interesting. Seriously though, it begs the question, would something like this be practical if implemented in a school, airport or sports arena scenario? -- IFPO. By Dale Gigandet, managing director and founder of Security Entry Consultants originally [...]

By |2019-01-03T06:44:03-05:00January 3rd, 2019|News|Comments Off on ‘Mantraps’ have wider use today in business, not just government or military

15 security professionals pass IFPO exams to boost their careers

Here are the latest IFPO graduates. Best of luck in your careers!   Johnny Jackson, CPO, Las Vegas, NV, USA James Michael Wilson, CPO, Oria, Almeria, Spain Jackelyn Baker, CPO, Manchester, NH, USA Daniel Doyle, CPO, Rocky Hill, CT, USA Jaspreet Singh Dhaliwal, CPO, Calgary, AB, Canada David Haldane, CPO, Sarnia, ON, Canada Jackson Ragland, [...]

By |2018-12-24T06:07:39-05:00December 24th, 2018|About IFPO, News|Comments Off on 15 security professionals pass IFPO exams to boost their careers

8 security professionals are now IFPO Certified Protection Officers

Here's a recent email from Joop Verdonk, CPP, Managing Director of the European Security Academy: In the last two weeks three CPO exams have been organized. Ten candidates sat the exam and eight of them passed in a successful way the exam. The names are: Michal Drozd, CPO, Amazon Lukasz Patecki, CPO, Amazon Kevin Funk, CPO, Swift Sophie Damen, [...]

By |2018-12-20T06:30:17-05:00December 20th, 2018|About IFPO, News|Comments Off on 8 security professionals are now IFPO Certified Protection Officers

Christmas holiday fliers to hit record 46 million, TSA says

Ashley Halsey III, The Washington Post, LMTonline.com If you are hankering to be one among millions this holiday, do not bother with the shopping malls, just head to the airport, where nearly 46 million people will mix travel anxiety with Christmas anxiety and a tad of family-get-together anxiety to create a merry little stew of [...]

By |2018-12-18T06:27:37-05:00December 18th, 2018|News|Comments Off on Christmas holiday fliers to hit record 46 million, TSA says

8 security professionals pass IFPO exams!

Here are the latest IFPO graduates. Best of luck in your careers!   Johnny Jackson, CPO, Las Vegas, NV, USA James Michael Wilson, CPO, Oria, Almeria, Spain Jackelyn Baker, CPO, Manchester, NH, USA Daniel Doyle, CPO, Rocky Hill, CT, USA Jaspreet Singh Dhaliwal, CPO, Calgary, AB, Canada David Haldane, CPO, Sarnia, ON, Canada Jackson Ragland, [...]

By |2018-12-14T08:31:24-05:00December 14th, 2018|About IFPO, News|Comments Off on 8 security professionals pass IFPO exams!

300+ loaded guns seized at airport security checkpoints by TSA in October

From PrivateOfficerBreakingNews: Washington DC November 13 2018 -- The Transportation Security Administration has said it confiscated more than 300 loaded guns at airport security checkpoints around the country in October. In a blog post on Friday, the TSA outlined its stats for the month: 358 firearms in carry-on bags were discovered at 105 airports around the [...]

By |2018-11-14T06:32:07-05:00November 14th, 2018|News|Comments Off on 300+ loaded guns seized at airport security checkpoints by TSA in October

Thanksgiving 2018 travel will be busiest ever, TSA says

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Travel experts are already predicting the busiest Thanksgiving season at the airport on record. This year’s holiday is also expected to last longer than normal, CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reported Tuesday. The lineups at LaGuardia Airport are still calm, but in just over a week it will be mobbed. LIKE the IFPO on [...]

By |2018-11-07T06:32:20-05:00November 7th, 2018|News|Comments Off on Thanksgiving 2018 travel will be busiest ever, TSA says

Congrats to the latest IFPO graduates!

  Here are the IFPO's latest security graduates. Best of luck in your careers!   David Gibson, CPO, Airdrie, AB, Canada Abdulaziz M. Almugrabi, CPOI, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Daniel King, CPOI, Basseterre, St. Kitts Yazeed Naif Al-Harbi, CPOI, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Penny Kennedy, CPO, St. John's, NL, Canada Corina Bartlett, CPO, St. John's, NL, Canada [...]

By |2018-09-29T18:07:53-04:00September 29th, 2018|About IFPO, News|Comments Off on Congrats to the latest IFPO graduates!

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