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Security is of prime importance to Domodedovo Moscow International Airport. JSC DOMODEDOVO AVIATION SECURITY was established to ensure security and safety of passengers, as well as of visitors and airport facilities, prevention and suppression of illegal circulation of arms, explosives and other hazardous materials.

The company's activities focus on the following areas:

• Ensuring aviation security within the airport complex;
• screening aircraft and other vehicles, passengers, flight crew, service personnel, hand baggage and checked baggage;
• screening cargo, mail, and in-flight supplies;
• maintaining internal access control, safeguarding aircraft and vehicles within the airport and civil aviation facilities located thereupon.

Real-time security management in the passenger terminal and within the circumference of the Airport Controlled Area (ACA) is organized by the security control center.

The Aviation Security Department (ASD) officers conduct checking and profiling (selective checks) of visitors at the entrance to the passenger terminal. The Wanted People Database (Rozysk Magistral) has been employed to analyze data received from air ticket purchase and booking systems, check-in counters systems and from law enforcement bodies' databases.

The passenger terminal is patrolled by officers with sniffer dogs trained in detecting explosives.

The passenger terminal's waiting areas, airside and check points are monitored round-the-clock by audio and video surveillance systems.

There are designated security areas comprising passenger terminal's landside and areas around other airport facilities. In these areas, only brief stops are allowed for vehicles for boarding and alighting passengers.

All passengers undergo thorough screening before a flight in the passenger check-in areas.

The compulsory inspection procedure includes:

• passenger screening with fixed and mobile metal detectors;
• pat-down inspection (this procedure is omitted when the SafeScout 100 scanner is used);
• footwear and hand luggage scanning with an X-ray introscope;
• manual inspection of small items and personal pocket-carried belongings.

The inspection is performed using modern gas detectors, X-ray scanners, millimeter scanning systems, etc. The ASD officers also use portable explosive and drug detectors (VaporTracer). These tools are distinguished by light weight, rapid analysis and extreme sensitivity, significantly improving detection and recognition of microscopic traces of explosives or drugs.

Additionally, the general security system uses the new generation SafeScout 100 screener. Currently, Moscow Domodedovo International Airport has nine, allowing passengers to keep shoes and belts on during inspections and avoid the pat-down inspection required at Russian airports since October 2004. This assures the observance of ethics rules when inspecting passengers who hesitate to take off their shoes or to pass pat-down inspection due to religious or other reasons. This technology easily detects metal, wooden, ceramic, plastic and other materials on the human body. The active millimeter waves emitted by the unit do not penetrate into the human skin, reflect at extremely low power levels and are absolutely harmless. Passing through the SafeScout100 portal is 10,000 times safer than one second mobile phone call. The screener accelerates the inspection procedure: each screening takes around 2 seconds. The entire check, including analysis of collected data, takes about 10 seconds. In 2008, there will be twenty-five SafeScount100 screeners.

To improve aviation security, the airport plans to introduce computer-aided and specialist information systems, such as:

• travel documents scanners in security control areas to facilitate the verification of documents;
• information displays on special control stands enabling ASD officers to identify a suspicious passengers and to request him/her to a proceed to a special inspection;
• additional screens in hand baggage inspection points displaying suspicious articles inside a passenger's hand baggage passing through an X-ray introscope. In addition to color marking of articles inside a checked baggage, the computer processes a signal generated by the introscope and acquires negative and outline images and zooms some parts of the image.

The airport uses the baggage processing system with 100% inspection by introscopes built in the baggage conveyor. The airport is introducing a multilevel computer-aided baggage control system to allow for high probability detection of prohibited articles and substances. The system will control baggage in several consecutive stages using devices and with minimum human involvement. Currently, the airport has a three-level control system, which will be upgraded to four levels in 2008.

Each ramp-parked aircraft is under continuous video surveillance. Pre-flight inspection of a cabin and service/baggage compartments before passenger boarding is compulsory.

Document inspection, pat-down inspection and hand baggage checks are obligatory for flight crew before boarding. 100% of cargoes and mail are inspected with X-ray introscopes detecting both organic and inorganic compounds as well as with fixed gas detectors and sniffer dogs.

On-board supplies (food, catering equipment and duty free goods) pass two-level inspections -video control during packing at in-flight catering facility and during loading to lifting trucks for onboard delivery. In the future, inspection of all goods and possessions will be arranged before by production and storage units of the catering facility before taking delivery of supplies. This will save time on flight procurement procedures.

At the entrances to ACA and in customs control points, the installed Yantar radiation control systems are integrated into a single network and allow for instant response and taking adequate actions in case of unlawful movement of radioactive materials.

Vehicles may enter ACA only after driver's and vehicle passes identification by security systems. Inspection procedure is compulsory for vehicles, drivers and passengers. Check points are equipped with automated traffic control barriers preventing vehicles from unauthorized access to ACA.

The CAA circumference is equipped with advanced safeguarding tools, such as perimeter security alarm system, security lighting, and CCTVs at the aerodrome control point.

In the course of scheduled ACA reconstruction, it is planned to introduce so called Smart Fence security technology featuring motion and vibration sensors, anti-digging systems and infrared distant early-warning (DEW) system. ASD officers regularly attend training courses at Russian and international training centers.

Address:
JCS Domodedovo Aviation Security
Domodedovo Moscow International Airport
Domodedovo District
Moscow Region
142015
Russia

Phone/Fax: +7 (495) 795 3820
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