Twenty-five new scanners State-of-the-art security systems are already operating at Ezeiza International Airport for better and less intrusive baggage inspection of passengers arriving through the country's main air gateway, the General Directorate of Customs (DGA) reported today (25.09.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX).
«The teams are the first dual-view scanners "which the agency incorporates and will allow it to improve its control actions, since the simultaneous view from two different angles facilitates the detection of infractions that scanners with a single viewing angle have a harder time finding," indicated the DGA.
Due to their technical characteristics, scanners are a non-intrusive control tool that is essential for baggage control at airports, since, of course, they allow the contents of suitcases to be inspected. greater agility that the exhaustive physical verification, highlighted the DGA.
This is the first incorporation of non-intrusive control tools of this type since 2014. "Just at the beginning of August, Customs had announced the arrival of a container scanner (the first of at least 5): the suitcase scanners installed in Ezeiza are part of the same initiative," said the DGA statement.
Guillermo Michel, Director General of Customs, said in this regard: "These teams, fundamentally, have the ability to distinguish organic from inorganic material when they scan. This is our vision for Customs: better technology, greater transparency and better functioning.”
“The arrival of new tools for the Customs staff is also a demand, since in 2018 - through Provision 204 - their salaries were reduced to, supposedly, invest in technology, something that the administration at that time ultimately never did. Our mission to modernize the agency's equipment did not require lowering the salaries of customs officers," he stressed.
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