Battling the border cheats

4th June 2010

Poland’s border control security is getting geared up for the 2012 UEFA football championship by fitting buses with a new device to help check ID cards and passports.

In an attempt to help curb the number of hooligans, thugs and troublemakers entering the country, authorities are preparing over 20 buses, specially fitted-out with an anti-counterfeit scanner, by UK’s Foster + Freeman.

The ‘VSC4 Plus’ is able to identify dodgy identification documents in seconds, aiding police and border guards more efficiently than ever before.

The equipment works by testing for security features commonly used to forge documents such as watermarks, holograms, UV- activated features, retro-re ...