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Kalinak: No Real Explosives Put In Luggage for Training Anymore
Thursday 04 February 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, February 4 (TASR) - Slovak Police continues with the practice of sniffer dog trainings, however the procedure where an actual explosives sample is put into travellers' luggage has been banned, said Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak at a press conference in Bratislava on Thursday.
The move follows an incident last month wherein an unwitting passenger carried explosives on board a flight to Dublin that had been planted and then forgotten about by Slovak police.
"It is a standard procedure carried out during every flight, only with alterations - sometimes it is real explosive sample, sometimes it is a dummy," said Kalinak, explaining how there are other ways of accomplishing the same training purposes.
"We are excluding the possibility of real explosive samples being put into luggage. It has its risks, therefore we have stopped it and we're looking for other alternatives," according to Kalinak.
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