In this little series of articles I want to show you, the reader, how many items (and I am sure I will not be able to cover them all) that could be weapons concealed in one way or other. While the person carrying one of those may not, necessarily, be carrying it with a criminal intent and may not be a terrorist what I would like to point out is how easy they can be overlooked.
Key Ring Knife
The picture above shows a “key ring knife” that was given away at a trade fair. While, obviously, there is nothing wrong with that per se this is one that even this author, who was the recipient, did not immediately recognize as being a small folding knife (the picture below shows the same knife in the open position).
When attached together with a bunch of keys it is very hard to spot and I have tried this out with many security officers and even police officers, the majority of who have failed to spot it as a knife, even without keys.
Therefore, we must always expect the unexpected in this field.
As I said already, even someone barding or wishing to board a plane with this keyring on his or her person should not be seen immediately as a threat and as a potential terrorist but we must be aware that those little items exist.
© M V Smith, April 2007
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