S.T.O.P. Passport CBT Training Program

Today's increasingly sophisticated and well-financed criminal networks are able to produce counterfeit passports and other identity documents which are very difficult to distinguish from genuine documents. Alliances between criminal gangs and terrorist organisations are a matter of grave concern. All personnel who screen passports occupy a vital role in the security system which protects us all from terrorism. The September 11th terrorist attacks were horrific in terms of the loss of human life and financial damage inflicted, yet they were not the worst-case scenario that many security experts believe could befall us in future, either in terms of the numbers of casualties or specifically in the use of new weapons.

The increasing innovation, sophistication and destructive potential of modern terrorists, armed with conventional, as well as Chemical, Biological and Radiological weapons, means that we must continually monitor these threats, remain vigilant, and ensure that security personnel are correctly trained and implement effective document screening procedures to prevent the infiltration of terrorists through border control points, airports and seaports.

High quality training is the essential basis for expertise and efficiency in the identification of criminals and other users of forged documentation. In an ideal training environment, regular access to hundreds of examples of genuine and fraudulent travel documents would be the most effective way to familiarise personnel with illegal documentation, giving them invaluable experience in identifying instances of forgery.

S.T.O.P. Passport is a comprehensive multimedia training program, using digital images, video, audio and animation to describe sound techniques for identifying document forgery and counterfeiting; as well as face recognition techniques for the identification of the impostor.

• Real cases of forgery & counterfeiting

• Security features in document protection

• Face recognition techniques for identifying impostors

• Developed with the assistance of the US & Canadian Immigration Authorities

The program guides the user through all the stages of checking a passport for signs of forgery and counterfeiting, provides hundreds of images of genuine and fraudulent documents, and is designed to improve the competence of all personnel responsible for identifying fraudulent documentation.

The program has been supplied to over 200 organisations worldwide, including: Airlines, Immigration Authorities, Embassies, Police Authorities and Ground Handling Companies. Clients include: Lufthansa German Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines System, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Zurich State Police, Romerike Police in Norway, Singapore Immigration Authority and the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service.