New Delhi: Make sure that you check your luggage at your destination if you are carrying valuables along. With the festive season on, gangs of loaders and ground staff involved in thefts from check-in baggage at IGI airport have become active.
In the first 10 days of October, IGI police arrested four loaders and registered seven theft cases where even the groud staff was involved.
The gangs operate in teams and include loaders, airline staff, ground staff deployed near security check areas and the house-keeping staff. The moment a bag with some valuables is detected during screening after check-in, the information is passed on to one of the house-keeping staffers who are mobile across the floor. They in turn inform loaders who carry luggage to the cargo hold of aircrafts after screening. The loaders carry out the thefts as are experts in opening bags without breaking locks.
19/10/15 Anvit Srivastava/Times of India
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In the first 10 days of October, IGI police arrested four loaders and registered seven theft cases where even the groud staff was involved.
The gangs operate in teams and include loaders, airline staff, ground staff deployed near security check areas and the house-keeping staff. The moment a bag with some valuables is detected during screening after check-in, the information is passed on to one of the house-keeping staffers who are mobile across the floor. They in turn inform loaders who carry luggage to the cargo hold of aircrafts after screening. The loaders carry out the thefts as are experts in opening bags without breaking locks.
19/10/15 Anvit Srivastava/Times of India
