Shenzhen subway loosens restriction on knives, flammables  

深圳公安局出台安检新规 允许带菜刀上地铁

深圳于9月初制订出台了《深圳市地铁对限带物品安全检查操作规范》(试行)。其中，在对民用生活生产工具的规定上，强调了物品造成危害的可能性，在限带刀具的种类、规格、数量上都有规定，如菜刀、水果刀、餐刀、剪刀、工艺刀、工具刀等刀具的刀刃部分在10厘米以上的认定为限带刀具；在安全保障上，要求进站物品必须是包装完好或采取包缠措施。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- Users of the Shenzhen metro can now carry certain types of knives and scissors on subway trains, the Southern Metropolis Daily has reported.

The local public security bureau has issued a new regulation, allowing cutting tools with blades over 10 centimeters long to be taken on subways, as long as they are well wrapped.

The allowed tools also include kitchen knives, fruit knives, table knives, craft knives and utility knives.

Flammables including white spirits, hair mousses, hair sprays and hair dyes are also allowed in small quantities.

The move comes after the city tightened subway security checks on August 15, causing complaints from passengers about the restrictions.

As to the public's concern about radiation from security scanners, an unnamed director said the scanners generate a much lower dose of radiation than allowed by the national standard.

"If a passenger gets scanned four times a day, the whole dose he receives in a year is just one fiftieth of what he gets on a flight from Shenzhen to Beijing," he added.