How do they match: Transportation Security Screeners

  • Security Officer
  • Transportation Security Officer

  • Record information about any baggage that sets off alarms in monitoring equipment.
  • Check passengers' tickets to ensure that they are valid, and to determine whether passengers have designations that require special handling, such as providing photo identification.
  • Contact police directly in cases of urgent security issues, using phones or two-way radios.
  • Follow those who breach security until police or other security personnel arrive to apprehend them.

  • Record information about suspicious objects.