What does random and continuous frisk search mean?
As you pass through the screening point, security screening staff may ask you to submit to a frisk search. Security screening staff select people for a frisk search at random, so you won’t be selected every time you pass through a screening point. The process is similar to the random and continuous explosive trace detection process currently in place at screening points. Security screening staff do not target or profile particular passengers. They are instructed to continuously undertake frisk searches, which means once they have concluded one frisk search, they will select the very next person they see. If you are selected, it means you were that person. It’s not just passengers who are selected; airport and airline staff may also be randomly selected.
