U.S. Customs Service: Better Targeting of Airline Passengers for Personal Searches Could Produce Better Results

United States. General Accounting Office.

United States. General Accounting Office.

关键词: Government accountability -- United States.;    transportation;    justice and law enforcement;    u.s. customs service;    letter report;   

RP-ID  :  GGD-00-38
RP-ID  :  228981

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed policies and procedures for conducting personal searches to determine the controls Customs Service has in place to ensure that airline passengers are not inappropriately selected or subjected to personal searches, focusing on how the Customs' personal search data: (1) identifies the characteristics--race and gender--of passengers who were more or less likely to be subjected to more intrusive searches; and (2) the results of searching those passengers."