Black light aims to expose fake IDs

U.S. airports laud black light techniques for spotting fake ID Cards, application of simple technology to impact counter-terror capabilities

Homeland Security News reported on Monday, Jan. 21, how a simple, inexpensive technique overlooked for years is a great new tool for increasing probabilities of trained security personnel to spot false ID cards.

The newest tool at airport security checkpoints is 3 inches long and costs only a few dollars: a handheld black light.

Airport screeners are starting to use them this month to examine driver’s licenses and other passenger ID cards presented at checkpoints to spot forgeries or tampering.

Passengers with suspicious documents can be questioned by police or immigration agents.

Black lights will help screeners inspect the ID cards by illuminating holograms, typically of government seals, that are found in licenses and passports.

Screeners also are getting magnifying glasses that highlight tiny inscriptions found in borders of passports and other IDs.

About 2,100 of each are going to the nation’s 800 airport checkpoints.

The closer scrutiny of passenger IDs is the latest Transportation Security Administration effort to check passengers more thoroughly than simply having them walk through metal detectors…

“This is a significant security upgrade,” TSA chief Kip Hawley said. “Screeners are trained in spotting forged documents and will get some training in studying suspicious passenger behavior to pick out people who merit deeper scrutiny at the checkpoint.”

Hopefully, the authorities we depend on are competent about making acts of terrorism difficult to successfully pull off.

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