Selected aspects of civil aviation security

This article discusses civil aviation security, which is understood as a combination of human and material activities and resources to safeguard international civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference. This article presents protection measures applied in the security system of civil airports. Parts of the article focuses on both theoretical and practical solutions concerning the airport security system. The systemic approach observes aviation security as a set of elements and relationships that occur between them in accordance with established principles, through the prism of the aim. The aim of aviation security is to prevent acts of unlawful interference (people, objects, hazardous materials threatening the safety of aviation and the aviation infrastructure). The authors of the article have identified the concept of airport security system and characterised the civil airport as a specific object. This article presents the procedural and technical aspects of the functioning of the civil security airport system.