The following article has been devoted to the issue of security at airports. The first part discusses the theoretical aspects of safety in relation to airports. Then the most important, in the author’s opinion, documents regulating issues of security at airports are described. The third part of the article describes selected services which are responsible for security at airports. The article was written to show the relations between the activities of the security services and security at airports.
There were many attacks on civil aviation facilities which occurred since the 1930s but the first recorded attack against the airport security occurred in 1970. Due to the extensive infrastructure, airports are susceptible to the occurrence of hazards especially acts of unlawful interference. The purpose of this article is the characteristics of airports in terms of possible threats. To accomplish this, the most important elements of airport infrastructure are characterized in the first part, which is followed by a presentation of selected acts of unlawful interference committed at airports. The last section of the paper contains most important results of the research regarding safety at airports in Poland from the passenger’s point of view.
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