UK cops use lie detector on terror informants AIRPORTS MAY GET US GUARDS

London, July 9: Scotland Yard has started using lie detector tests on terror informants to ensure the quality of the intelligence is strong, according to a media report.

The Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism command have launched a top-secret scheme to get their sources undertake polygraph examinations in an attempt to weed out lies and misinformation, The Sunday Times reports.

The programme, which is believed to be unprecedented in British policing, is an attempt to verify intelligence from people who are often of questionable integrity as they themselves operate in the criminal underworld. London: American armed guards are likely to be stationed at the US immigration checks at British airports to screen travellers flying to the US.

Edinburgh and Manchester airports are reported to be interested in a “pre-clearance facility” where passengers would be processed by US immigration officers before departure, The Sunday Times reported.

“We are not prepared to discuss this,” Scotland Yard said in reference to the scheme.

News of the scheme, overseen by Mark Rowley, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer,

Dublin airport already operates such a facility.

For the scheme to go ahead in the UK there would need to be a formal agreement with the US government on all aspects of the arrangement, including whether US officials would be armed.

Heathrow, the UK’s busiest airport, believes the system would not be practical. has emerged in the wake of four terrorist attacks in the UK.

Some blamed the attacks on a failure of intelligence, although MI5 and the police say they are overstretched.