London, July 14 (ANI): The British airports are set to introduce a new security measure under which passengers can now be spared the chore of removing shoes, belts and having to unpack their laptops every time they go through security checks.
Sweeping changes will give airports greater flexibility to use technology to carry out the inspections, which infuriate millions of people every day.
The plans, which will be unveiled to MPs by Philip Hammond, the Transport Secretary, will encourage airports to invest in new screening devices to cut the time needed to get through to the departure lounge, the Telegraph reports.
This checklist, which demands a specified proportion of passengers remove their shoes and insist that all computers are removed from carry-on luggage, will be scrapped under the new measure.
The British Government has been lobbying the European Union to ease its insistence that every passenger must pass through a metal detector, believing that a new generation of body scanners can do the job as efficiently, if not more so.
While ministers believe the EU will take some persuasion, they feel there is some room to overhaul how other security checks are carried out without putting passengers at risk.
Much of the technology is being developed, for example shoe-scanners are already in use at Brussels. (ANI)
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