Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:59 am
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The obvious motivation around such policies and working practices is that the Police and Border Force are poorly placed to do the 'matching-up' part of the work - i.e. ensuring each aircraft that requires a GAR has filed one, assuming of course that such checking is deemed necessary. Asking the airport to request the GAR and then pass it on effectively delegates this matching-up to staff at the airport.
Of course the GAR system is evidently designed as one of self-reporting, with little or no provision for tracing the pilot who fails to self-report. As happens from time to time, people involved in law enforcement start enforcing what they think the law should be rather than what it is. Thus local pockets of the relevant authorities decide the system is insufficient and that they would prefer a system where the pilot who fails to self-report is detected as a matter of course. Not having the resources to do this themselves, they ask airports to do it for them.
Of course the GAR system is evidently designed as one of self-reporting, with little or no provision for tracing the pilot who fails to self-report. As happens from time to time, people involved in law enforcement start enforcing what they think the law should be rather than what it is. Thus local pockets of the relevant authorities decide the system is insufficient and that they would prefer a system where the pilot who fails to self-report is detected as a matter of course. Not having the resources to do this themselves, they ask airports to do it for them.
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