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Immigration Heathrow
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:08:46 +0100, "tim....."
wrote: You've never flown to the US then! It's the pits, makes the UK controls look trivial. I will admit I always liked the non-uniformed informality of the UK approach. They could quite easily have tightened it up without losing that typically British friendliness. Neil -- Neil Williams Put my first name before the at to reply. |
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Immigration Heathrow
In message , Neil Williams
writes On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:08:46 +0100, "tim....." wrote: You've never flown to the US then! It's the pits, makes the UK controls look trivial. I will admit I always liked the non-uniformed informality of the UK approach. They could quite easily have tightened it up without losing that typically British friendliness. Yeah, give them all a Walther PPK and allow them to take the odd pot shot at anyone who looked a bit Brazilian :-) -- Edward Cowling "Must Go - Politician to Heckle !!" |
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Immigration Heathrow
On 15 Sep, 14:46, (Neil Williams)
wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:08:46 +0100, "tim....." wrote: You've never flown to the US then! It's the pits, makes the UK controls look trivial. I will admit I always liked the non-uniformed informality of the UK approach. They could quite easily have tightened it up without losing that typically British friendliness. Neil Yes, I tend to agree. Of course the whole issue of uniforms is one that is surrounded by many theories, and is a favourite topic of study by psychologists and the like. Maybe the uniform does suggest to people (not least the officers themselves) that they are taking things seriously/to be taken seriously. Of course the cynic would suggest this change of image is really for the benefit of the law abiding GBP* as opposed to those wishing to break the rules - however I'm more of a sceptic than a cynic so I wouldn't necessarily be in complete agreement with such a simplistic line of argument, though I think it likely such considerations were at least a factor (even subliminally) in the change of policy. Of course it isn't possibly to entirely disentangle considerations of how the image of the newly-uniformed Immigration officers will come across to the GBP as discrete from how it will be seen by the wider world. ---------- * GBP - the "Great British Public". |
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Immigration Heathrow
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:41:26 -0700, Mizter T
wrote: Of course the whole issue of uniforms is one that is surrounded by many theories, and is a favourite topic of study by psychologists and the like. Maybe the uniform does suggest to people (not least the officers themselves) that they are taking things seriously/to be taken seriously. Of course the cynic would suggest this change of image is really for the benefit of the law abiding GBP* as opposed to those wishing to break the rules This wouldn't surprise me, nor would the theory that security and immigration queues are allowed to get bigger because that shows that "Something Is Being Done" (tm), while employing more staff and improving procedures doesn't. Neil -- Neil Williams Put my first name before the at to reply. |
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Immigration Heathrow
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:13:07 +0100, Richard
wrote: Has anybody here registered with IRIS? This might be the solution. I haven't registered, but I think I will next time I pass through. A pity that it has not yet been extended to Eurostar arrivals. A bunch of us registered to reduce the pain of LHR arrivals. It's a relatively pleasant experience in LHR T4 to register: the staff were pleasant and efficient. However the one sole machine in T4 arrivals is not well. According to the passport bod it's been out of action for 1 week now. You get several problems with use of Iris. Firstly, there's only one per arrivals area. Sometimes the EU queue is faster, especially when someone in front is doing their best make a balls of reading their eyeballs. Secondly, the system is not really intuitive: you wait for the glass panels to slide shut, red X becomes green arrow, step up, glass panels open and admit one. Some people step too close to the panel and it stays shut in a sulk until a space is left. Unlike Schiphol's much older and costly (EUR75?) system which tips failures in front of the EU q,, a 'reject' has to either walk all the way back to a proper EU queue or scale barriers. You're meant to slip to the shorter Q: EU or rest of world but the rejects I've seen tend to loiter and block - the system has been kind to me for 4 or so weeks and it's fair to say that it works on cop & clue as well as the iris. Peeps lacking cop tend to drastically slow down the process. Registering needs a proof of ID and residency. 10 or so mins on a good day but they open well after the red eyes (!) have departed. -- Old anti-spam address cmylod at despammed dot com appears broke So back to cmylod at bigfoot dot com |
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