Gulliver | Medical emergencies
Emergency at the security check?
The TSA tells its officers to stay right where they are
By A.B. | LONDON
CHRIS ELLIOTT reports on an internal memo from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which deals with the way TSA employees should respond to medical emergencies. It gives pretty short shrift to the idea of their stepping in to help:
“First and foremost as TSA officers we are not first responders to an emergency and we cannot allow a distraction during our critical mission.”
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