Checkpoint Highlights
Courthouses Embrace L-3 Millimeter Wave Portal and Boast First Commercial Installation of Integrated Checkpoint System
The installation of the landmark ProTech™ Integrated Checkpoint System at the Douglas County Robert A. Christensen Justice Center, located in Castle Rock, Colorado, marks the first purchase of the world’s first truly integrated checkpoint security solution. Merging proven, stand-alone detection technologies, ProTech is a pioneering multi-layered approach to detecting multiple threats simultaneously, including metallic and non-metallic weapons, drugs, explosives, stolen property and other contraband.
Sold as a complete system or in modules, ProTech’s scalable design adapts to diverse security and operational requirements, budgets and existing security systems. The data system’s open architecture includes expansion ports for additional sensors (biometric, video, etc.) as needs, technologies and concepts of operation change. The ProTech solution installed at the Christensen Justice Center consists of three modules: the ProVision™ whole-body imager walk-through portal, the Protocol™ PD 6500i zoned metal detector for identifying threats or contraband concealed on the body and the PX™ 6.4 checkpoint X-ray system for screening hand-carried items.
Using harmless, non-ionizing millimeter wave technology, in as little as two seconds the ProVision whole-body imager can locate weapons, drugs and cleverly hidden contraband made of any conceivable material. The ProVision component as a stand-alone product is currently installed and under evaluation at the District of Colombia’s Federal Courthouse, and has been helping to secure the El Paso County Terry R. Harris Judicial Complex in Colorado Springs since April 2007. The latter was the first courthouse in the nation to adopt ProVision, which has gained wide acceptance internationally for use in airports, border crossings, military installations and other checkpoint applications.
Utilizing industry-leading X-ray technology, the compact, high-throughput PX 6.4 delivers excellent image quality for the rapid detection of weapons, narcotics, explosives and other contraband hidden in hand-carried items. The versatile Protocol PD 6500i metal detector adds yet another layer of advanced material discrimination to the integrated checkpoint system, while the Sensor Integration Server collects, combines and organizes data from the individual components to give inspectors a comprehensive view of concealed items and substances identified by the system’s detection technologies.
