Vietnam airport applies asset declaration, security check to prevent staff stealing luggage

September 18, 2015 | 16:17

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The management of Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi has asked staff to get through security screening and fill out asset declaration forms, in a new move to bar them from stealing luggage.

The airport authority has resorted to such measures following many thefts that targeted the checked luggage of passengers and airborne goods a few months ago.

Under the new rules, airport employees are required to declare the assets they have brought along with them and go through the security screening system before they are allowed to enter their working areas.

Such assets include tablet computers, mobile phones, laptops, and other valuable items.

In certain cases, such assets will be retained by officers in charge of the security screening system, the authority said.

In addition, the airport authority has also taken measures to improve its internal control and supervision systems to prevent passengers’ goods and checked luggage from being stolen.

In early July, police in Hanoi detained Nguyen Quoc Thang, a 27-year-old man, who was a ground staffer of the Noi Bai Ground Trading Enterprise, on charges of “stealing property.”

Thang’s arrest followed a probe by police officers who received many reports from passengers that many assets had gone missing from their checked luggage.

The man had committed at least ten thefts in total, from November 2014 until his arrest, investigators said, adding that he put all the stolen assets, including cellphones, cameras, perfume bottles and others, for sale on the Internet, earning VND176 million ($7,830).

Police initially affirmed that a number of stevedores and forklift drivers at the airport had aided Thang in his thefts.

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