Tag page - Office of Transport Security

The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has confirmed the suspension of the policy of the Office for Transportation Security (OTS) on the mandatory removal of shoes in all airports across the country. With the suspension, passengers will only be required to remove their footwear when an alarm is...

Sen. Grace Poe said she believes that the next person to lead the Office for Transportation Security (OTS) should have an immense political will to overhaul the agency. She issued the statement on Wednesday, Sept. 27 after the courtesy resignation of OTS Administrator Undersecretary Ma. O Aplasca...

House Speaker Martin Romualdez (rightmost) (Speaker’s office)           "We are already fed up." House Speaker Martin Romualdez has said that he would personally block the approval of the Office of Transport Security's (OTS) budget if its administrator, Mao Aplasca,...

The Office for Transport Security (OTS), an attached agency of the Department of Transportation (DOTr), has asked the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) to probe the operations of a vessel carrying foreign crew in coastal waters. Specifically, the OTS said that Marina should verify if the vessel...

The Department of Transportation (DOTr), through the Office for Transportation Security (OTS), intercepted a total of 1,880 prohibited items from airport passengers across the country for the month of March alone. Some of the seized items include live bullets, "non-live" bullets kept as amulets, as...