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Homeland Security

Smiths Supplies Security Technologies for USPIS Screening Station

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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

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Smiths Detection says that the U.S. Postal Inspection Service's (USPIS) has acquired number of the company's security technologies for use in the Mobile Mail Screening Station that is being deployed to high-profile events around the country. The mobile station was used at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions recently. Smiths says its technologies included in the screening unit include: The GID-3, ambient air monitoring system to examine the air inside the mobile unit for toxic industrial chemicals and chemical…

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