Handheld Metal Detectors

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The Need for Handheld Metal Detectors: 

Handheld metal detectors are used to search for offensive weapons in crowd control, airport and border security, schools and government buildings or anywhere that hidden metal needs to be detected. 

Handheld metal detectors are often an important part of security procedures.

In today’s society, we all need to do everything we can to protect our loved ones and ourselves. A great method of locating and preventing the use of dangerous items such as handguns or knives is the handheld metal detector.

In countless places all over the country, including courtrooms, warehouses, jails, airports, schools, embassies, correctional facilities, hospitals, nuclear power plants, venues for special events and more—security operations rely on the use of handheld metal detectors.

There have been several events in current history that have made us aware of the unfortunate necessity of having handheld metal detectors available for all kinds of facilities. The ones we fear most, being the airports—if terrorists are going to try another attack on our country, many believe that they are likely to strike from the air. Since the 9/11 attacks this country has felt more fearful, flying, and airport security has tightened immensely. Part of this advancement in airport security is the re-enforced reliability of handheld metal detectors to prevent disaster.

Along with catastrophic dangers from the sky, somehow children and young adults have been able to access guns, knives and other weapons and have become a danger to themselves and to their classmates in schools—and criminals attempt to bring weapons into government facilities, banks stores etc.

The need for handheld metal detectors is as essential now as it ever was, and there are all kinds of metal detectors to suit the specific needs you need to meet for your security objectives.

How to conduct a body scan with a handheld metal detector

The body scan should be performed each time in the same pattern so that the operator always knows what parts of the body still need scanning. You may want to use the routine illustrated below.

Ask the subject to place all carried items, plus any caps or headgear on a table . The subject should stand with his or her feet about 18 inches apart, facing away from the table and about 2 feet in front of it. Ask the subject to hold his or her arms out to the sides, parallel to the floor.

Quickly run the handheld metal detector across some piece of conductive material on your own body, such as a belt buckle. The ensuing squeal of the  handheld metal detector will assure you that the scanner is still operating properly.

Start at the top of one shoulder of the subject. With the paddle of the  handheld metal detector held horizontally and parallel to the front of the body, sweep down one side of the front of the torso, down the leg to the ankle, then move to the other ankle and sweep back up the front of this opposite leg and torso, ending with the opposite shoulder.

Sweep the  handheld metal detector paddle over the outside top of the arm from the top of the shoulder to the bottom of the wrist, then up the inside of the arm to the armpit. Sweep down that side of the body to the ankle, then up the inside of that leg and down the inside of the opposite leg, then back up the other leg from the ankle to the underarm. Repeat the sweep of the inside and outside of this arm. Note that it would be particularly important to avoid touching the paddle up against the subject's body when scanning up and down between the legs.

Ask the subject to turn around. (Arms can be put down now.) The pattern used to scan the front of the body should now be repeated over the back of the body.

Ask the subject to grab the edge of the table for support, then to lift one foot up in back of him- or herself. Scan across the bottom of the shoe. Repeat for the other foot. The operator should expect to hear a short squeal from the detector when scanning the bottom of shoes or boots with steel shanks or steel toes. Both shoes should cause equivalent squeals.

For the head area, start at the top of the forehead and scan around the top of the head down to the back of the neck.