"OTTAWA -- From the furrowed brow to the nervously tapping foot, security personnel will soon start studying air travellers' facial expressions and body movements to see if they could be criminals and terrorists.
Beginning next year, some air travellers will be scrutinized by airport 'behaviour detection officers' for physiological signs of hostile intent -- in other words: screening for dangerous people rather than just for dangerous objects.
Planning for the training and deployment of the plainclothes security officers is to begin this fall, with a pilot project expected to roll out at a major airport in 2010, the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority said yesterday. The project's budget is about $400,000.
If successful, 'behaviour pattern recognition' could land at major airports across the country." ...more
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