New re­ports emerged on Mon­day of al­leged pro­to­col and se­cu­ri­ty breach­es by For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Den­nis Moses at Air­port Au­thor­i­ty se­cu­ri­ty check­points.

This fol­lows an­oth­er mat­ter which oc­curred on Sep­tem­ber 20.

It was re­cent­ly re­port­ed AATT se­cu­ri­ty guard Kelvon Alexan­der was sus­pend­ed for two weeks in an in­ci­dent in­volv­ing Moses and Plan­ning Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is when they at­tempt­ed to ex­it via the air­port's du­ty-free area on Sep­tem­ber 20.

Moses sub­se­quent­ly ex­plained it was cus­tom­ary for a pro­to­col of­fi­cer to ex­tend cour­te­sies to mem­bers of the del­e­ga­tion which ac­com­pa­ny him, in­clud­ing pro­cess­ing them through im­mi­gra­tion.

Part of that arrange­ment in­clud­ed be­ing guid­ed through the air­port, through Cus­toms, fol­low­ing the pro­to­col of­fi­cer who had the doc­u­ments and did the pro­cess­ing, he added.

Moses said the for­mat forms “an in­te­gral part of cour­te­sies ex­tend­ed to us.”

Guardian Me­dia was told that re­ports were made to AATT about two oth­er in­ci­dents which oc­curred on Sep­tem­ber 12 and Oc­to­ber 27 in­volv­ing some­one whom AATT of­fi­cers iden­ti­fied as Moses.

One re­port dat­ed Sep­tem­ber 26 sent to the AATT's In­spec­tor of In­ves­ti­ga­tions showed an “oc­cur­rence” on Sep­tem­ber 12 in the Do­mes­tic Ter­mi­nal at 5.55 am. The du­ty of­fi­cer stat­ed a per­son had ap­proached with car­ry-on bags and with­out ac­knowl­edg­ing the of­fi­cer/oth­er of­fi­cers, at­tempt­ed to ac­cess the check­point be­yond the met­al de­tec­tor and glass walls that sep­a­rate the do­mes­tic ter­mi­nal and de­par­ture ar­eas.

The re­port in­di­cat­ed the of­fi­cer asked if he could help and the per­son in a "very rough" tone, re­spond­ed, “I is a Min­is­ter, and I'm go­ing on this flight."

The of­fi­cer asked if the per­son was be­ing es­cort­ed by a pro­to­col of­fi­cer as the AATT of­fi­cer had no oth­er in­for­ma­tion. The state­ment not­ed the per­son's re­sponse was “I is a Min­is­ter, and they have my board­ing pass in­side.”

The of­fi­cer said he in­formed the per­son, whom he recog­nised as Sen­a­tor Den­nis Moses, that all cour­te­sies would be af­ford­ed to him, but when trav­el­ling, he should at least ac­knowl­edge the of­fi­cers on du­ty and try not to by­pass them.

The per­son - ac­cord­ing to the state­ment - said he was a Min­is­ter and “didn't have to ac­knowl­edge” any­one. The man re­quest­ed the of­fi­cer's name and num­ber. These were pro­vid­ed.

The of­fi­cer in­formed the man that his bags would be checked and he should walk through the met­al de­tec­tors and col­lect them. The man, re­fused, by­passed the met­al de­tec­tor, col­lect­ed his bags and board­ed his flight, the re­port added.

An­oth­er re­port dat­ed Oc­to­ber 29 con­cerned an in­ci­dent on Oc­to­ber 27.

A fe­male of­fi­cer said around 5.55 am on Oc­to­ber 27 she saw a “thin light-skinned gen­tle­man” at­tempt­ing to pass at the side of the walk-through met­al de­tec­tor. She in­ter­cept­ed him. He told her he nev­er screens his bags here or in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

Her re­port stat­ed she told him there were pro­ce­dures at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port and asked to have his bag screened and he al­lowed this. Her state­ment not­ed she then re­alised it was Sen­a­tor Den­nis Moses. The per­son took their bags and went to the hold­ing bay but re­turned soon af­ter and thanked her for her pro­fes­sion­al at­ti­tude, en­quir­ing when her shift would be over. The re­port stat­ed she told him and he thanked her again for her ap­proach, told her to keep it up and left.

The of­fi­cer said she had pre­vi­ous­ly ob­served her su­pe­ri­ors on oth­er shifts in­sist that bags “of such per­son­nel must be searched.” Her re­port added she was un­clear of the sit­u­a­tion and sought guid­ance on the pro­ce­dures.

Moses did not an­swer calls yes­ter­day on the new re­ports. Last Sun­day, Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed AATT about the two oth­er in­ci­dents.

In re­sponse, the AATT stat­ed, "With ref­er­ence to the two in­ci­dents and your ques­tions con­cern­ing se­cu­ri­ty screen­ing, AATT ad­vis­es that se­cu­ri­ty pro­ce­dures at the air­ports oc­cur in high­ly reg­u­lat­ed en­vi­ron­ments and ad­here to the stan­dards and rec­om­mend­ed prac­tices of na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al reg­u­la­tions. Like all in­ter­na­tion­al air­ports, Pi­ar­co has cus­tomer ser­vice and se­cu­ri­ty screen­ing to fa­cil­i­tate all users. These pro­ce­dures are con­tained in reg­u­la­tions pro­mul­gat­ed in the Air­ports Se­cu­ri­ty Pro­gramme, a re­strict­ed doc­u­ment that guides the con­duct of all se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers."