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TSA Wants Airport Incident Alarms Integrated With Camera Surveillance

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, March 28th, 2014

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TSA Wants Airport Incident Alarms Integrated With Camera Surveillance

LAX Control Tower. The airport has had 205 reported drone sightings since April 2016. Photo: LAWA

Incident alarms located at certain areas of the nation’s airports should be integrated with the surveillance camera systems at these airports to enable better situational awareness in the event of dangerous events such as the shooting last November at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) that resulted in the murder of a Transportation Security Officer (TSO), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says in a report issued on Wednesday. TSA Administrator John Pistole on Friday said his agency is encouraging airports to…

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