EUROPE’S AIRPORTS HAVE NEW EU AIRPORT POLICE ORGANISATION
April 1st, 2012
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has a new airport police organisation: Airpol - a network of airport police across the 27 EU countries. It was formally created only at the end of 2010, but already has a budget and staff and is laying plans for the future. It is of course early days, but has a starting budget of Euro EUR250,000, and a staff of just four part-time officers of the Belgian federal airport police at Brussels National Airport, and has the backing and formal support of the EU Council of Ministers - still Europe's most powerful body when it comes ...
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