Se­cu­ri­ty at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has re­ceived a no­tice­able up­grade as a joint team of heav­i­ly armed tac­ti­cal po­lice and snif­fer dogs has been de­ployed to pre­vent any up­surge in crime at the fa­cil­i­ty.

The ini­tia­tive was an­nounced dur­ing a brief launch at the air­port’s VIP Lounge yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, where Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro said the height­ened se­cu­ri­ty pres­ence would go a long way to­wards se­cur­ing a crit­i­cal piece of this coun­try’s trav­el in­fra­struc­ture.

Re­fer­ring to the mur­der of Arkin Quashie in April this year and the rob­bery of the Pi­ta Pit out­let in ear­ly June, Gue­var­ro said sen­si­tive fa­cil­i­ties which host cit­i­zens and in­ter­na­tion­al vis­i­tors should be ad­e­quate­ly se­cured.