Opinion

Container Security: Who's In Charge?

Guest columnist Jim Giermanski takes issue - actually seven specific issues - with DHS comments on the role of technology in container security.

By James Giermanski

 
Only a few conclusions are plausible.  One, CBP really does not know what is going on in container security worldwide. Two, it knows but has an agenda of working with certain companies that yet do not have the "origin-to-destination" system, along with detection and reporting capability worldwide. Three, its management may simply be lethargic and virtually dull, or fourth, it may not think container security is really a security threat and that the laws passed requiring performance do not really apply to them.
As a private citizen, not politically connected to either party, it is apparent to me that Congress cannot or will not do what we expect it to do. Who is in-charge of the nation's security—Congress, DHS, CBP, or the private sector? When this question can be answered, and safeguards are mandated, we should all feel safer.  ##

Dr. James Giermanski is chairman of transportation security company Powers International and Director of the Centre for Global Commerce at Belmont Abbey College.

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