The operations centre of the Public Security Police Force carried out a comprehensive inspection in the passenger terminal of the airport.
The government bodies and the aviation operators involved in airport security jointly conducted the “Bomb Threat Exercise 2016” in Macau International Airport in this early morning (29 July 2016) to simulate the activation of the Airport Emergency Plan and the security contingency procedures in response to a bomb threat that occurred in the passenger terminal. The exercise took place from 02:00 to 05:00 this morning. The scenario was of a an anonymous phone call made to an airline from an association who claimed that they had put bombs in the airport and threatened to explode them. With the assessment made by the bomb threat analysis and evaluation group, the airport declared emergency and activated the airport emergency plan to handle the crisis. The operations centre of the Public Security Police Force activated their security contingency procedures to carry out necessary tasks such as conducting a comprehensive inspection in the airport and eventually found two suspect baggages. The site was cordoned off and the people in that area were evacuated. The special police were called in to inspect the two baggages; it was confirmed that one of these baggages was a genuine bomb. The bomb was then detonated. The exercise was deemed smooth. There were about 150 participants. The exercise was coordinated by Public Security Police Force with the participation of other entities including Unitary Police Force, Macao Customs Services, Judiciary Police, Fire Services Bureau, Security Coordination Office, Health Bureau, Marine and Water Bureau, Civil Aviation Authority, CAM-Macau International Airport Company Ltd, Administration of Airports, Ltd., Macau Security Company Ltd. (airport security), Menzies Macau Airport Services Ltd and Air Macau Company Ltd. Macau International Airport carries out different types of exercise every year. Earlier this April, the fuel farm exercise was conducted; following this bomb threat exercise, the full scale emergency exercise and the heliport exercise will be held later in the second half of the year.
