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TSA Plans To Add More Bomb Sniffing Dogs To Checkpoints This Summer

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 17th, 2018

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TSA Plans To Add More Bomb Sniffing Dogs To Checkpoints This Summer

Amid expectations for even higher airline travel this summer than last, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is adding more personnel and bomb sniffing dog teams at airports to enhance security and minimize checkpoint wait times, an agency official told a House panel on Thursday.TSA will have 50 more passenger screening canine teams in place before the peak travel season in July, Darby LaJoye, executive administrator for Security Operations, told the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security. The agency this…

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Congress

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