Model Course 3.

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Port Facility Security Officer
2015 Edition

Corrigenda
June 2017
On page 30, under section 16.5 – Places of concealment on a port facility, delete the existing text and
replace it with the following:

“Participants in the course should be acquainted with the fact that there are many places in port
facilities where weapons, dangerous substances, and devices can be concealed. Some of these are:
–– Behind removable medicine chest
–– Inside radios, recorders, etc.
–– Ventilator ducts
–– Storage tanks
–– Inside heater units
–– Above or behind light fixtures
–– Above ceiling and wall panels
–– False bottom clothes closets-hanging clothes
–– Inside wooden clothes hangers
–– Inside rolled socks, spare socks
–– Hollowed-out molding
–– Ducts
–– Wire harnesses
–– Railings
–– Fire extinguishers
–– Fire hoses and compartments
–– Access panels in floors, walls, ceilings
–– Behind or inside water coolers, igloos
–– Behind and under washbasins
–– Behind toilets
–– In ventilation ducts and heaters
–– Toilet tissue rollers, towel dispensers, supply lockers
–– Taped to shower curtains, exposed piping, and light fixtures.”

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