Safety assessment to be performed following multi-million cocaine bust at Ian Fleming Worldwide airport

The Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) can be enterprise a safety assessment following the latest multi-million cocaine bust on the Ian Fleming Worldwide Airport in St. Mary.

In an interview, AAJ President and Chief Govt Officer Audley Diedrick mentioned the drug bust has prompted the company to take a better take a look at safety on the airport.

In line with Deidrick, the airport operates at worldwide safety requirements, and based mostly on this, the power is required by regulation to abide by established safety measures and protocols.

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“And I’d go additional to say that as a result of we’re additionally trying to set up operations in the USA, we’re additionally having to make sure that we’re using measures that meet the necessities of the TSA (Transport Safety Administration) of the USA.”

“When an incident like this occurs, in the identical manner, that when 9/11 occurred in 2000 it prompted the aviation business – airways, airports – to take a look at their safety measures and to see the place, if any, enhancements may be made then I’d say with all honesty in a matter like this, because the operator for that airport, we’ll use the chance to look if there are any ways in which we have to take any additional enhancements to our safety system,” he added.

On Friday, personnel from the Narcotics Division and Counter Terrorism and Organized Crime Division, together with their counterparts from the USA and Canada, carried out focused operations on the airport and seized ten luggage containing simply over 1,100 kilos of cocaine, valued at US$25 million.

The Ian Fleming Worldwide Airport was upgraded from the Boscobel Aerodrome in January 2011, and earlier this 12 months, the airport welcomed its first scheduled worldwide flight with the arrival of a 30-seater InterCaribbean Airways plane from Providenciales, Turks and Caicos.

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