New rules at work - checking customer's bags: Where do I stand?

jaydeeuk1

Family and I weren't searched at the natural history museum today, just waved through, I'm guessing common sense prevailed in the fight against terrorism.

getzls

DCFC79 wrote: »

Training to do what ?

All your doing it checking bags.

Just be polite about it.

IMO he will need a SIA licence.
Do you know the correct way to check a bag?

mro

Amazing that people are making random mindless comments that it's all ok to do bag searches, when it's clearly security work needing a licence.

The good old reliable t'internet.

jm2926

I was at a concert(12k people) last week where bags were checked. the check consisted of public holding bag open randomly showing sections of bag to staff who had clearly been told not to touch anything. Pointless unless spotting large items

ohreally

Personally I view this as a function of security staff.

Ask to see the risk assessment, you have no way of knowing if you are searching a drug users bag containing sharps. What safeguards are in place? If someone gets stroppy can you de-escalate the situation?

Wyndham

What would you do if you found something? And the person then got violent? I'd be concerned about being asked to do this unless I knew a) what I was looking for and b) what do to if I found something.

getzls

jm2926 wrote: »

I was at a concert(12k people) last week where bags were checked. the check consisted of public holding bag open randomly showing sections of bag to staff who had clearly been told not to touch anything. Pointless unless spotting large items

That is the way bag checking is done. It's mainly as a derterant especially with so many people there. The Security Guard will ask you to take items out of the bag, he will not take things out of the bag him or her self.
If they put there hands in the bag it leaves them open to accusations of putting items in the bag.

agrinnall

getzls wrote: »

That is the way bag checking is done. It's mainly as a derterant especially with so many people there. The Security Guard will ask you to take items out of the bag, he will not take things out of the bag him or her self.
If they put there hands in the bag it leaves them open to accusations of putting items in the bag.

But the OP has had no training to tell them this is the way it should be done.

getzls

agrinnall wrote: »

But the OP has had no training to tell them this is the way it should be done.

Yes I know.
If an SIA official seem him searching bags he could be prosecuted if he had no licence.
I talked to one once and he said some people deny they are security.
His view was, if you look like a Duck you are a Duck.:rotfl:

maninthestreet

i would be embarrassed searching a woman's handbag, especially if it had one of those 'rabbit' things in it....