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Extra Safety Measures<br />

Malaysia Airports ensures tighter security with<br />

4,000 security personnel at 39 airports<br />

Malaysia Airports is committed in ensuring the safety of its<br />

airports and passengers revealing it has over 4,000 airport aviation<br />

security personnel employed within all 39 airports in the country.<br />

Chairman, Tan Sri Dr Wan Abdul Aziz Wan Abdullah said,<br />

"Malaysia Airports will always cooperate with the country's<br />

security forces to the highest level of security at all airports is<br />

satisfactory."<br />

Speaking during a parade by 143 airport aviation security<br />

personnel trainees at KL International Airport (KLIA) Bunga Raya<br />

Complex recently, he said the organisation will remain committed<br />

in working with the country's security forces to ensure the safety<br />

of flights at all airports<br />

within the country is at<br />

a level of excellence<br />

and in accordance with<br />

the International Civil<br />

Aviation Organisation<br />

(ICAO) and the<br />

Department of Civil<br />

Aviation Malaysia (DCA).<br />

The trainees underwent<br />

six months of intensive<br />

training which included<br />

two months at PULAPOL<br />

Langkawi, two months at the Malaysia<br />

Airports Training Centre Penang and<br />

two months of practical training at KLIA<br />

and several airports in Sabah before they<br />

officially begin work as a member of the<br />

aviation security personnel. The new<br />

addition of trainees makes Malaysia Airports<br />

one of the largest organisations with an<br />

auxiliary aviation security personnel force.<br />

Wan Abdul Aziz also said that these trainees<br />

will perform tasks that meet international<br />

standards to ensure the safety of the<br />

airport and its passengers are at its best.<br />

He said knowledge and skills that have<br />

been exposed to the trainees is the most<br />

important component towards achieving<br />

excellence and confidence in proving that<br />

the security force possess the skills and<br />

discipline to control and protect the safety<br />

at airports in addition to support the goals<br />

of the company in its five-year business plan,<br />

Runway to Success 2020.<br />

What's<br />

C onverging<br />

Newly-minted Malaysia Airports aviation security personnel<br />

A trainee receiving a honorary certificate from<br />

Malaysia Airports' Chairman, Tan Sri Dr Wan Abdul<br />

Aziz Wan Abdullah<br />

Malaysia Airports' Senior Management and its 143 aviation security personnel trainees outside<br />

the KLIA Bunga Raya Complex, recently<br />

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