I was going through airport security in Ottawa, Canada; we have our own version of the TSA. There was a new female employee working the secondary screening after you go through the metal detector(I am male). I was waved through, and no alarms went off. The supervisor who was training her, stepped aside for a moment as I was going through. The new employee asked me if she could pat my front pockets down, and I complied. As I was picking up my laptop bag, after the pat down I noticed the supervisor, who had returned, informing the new employee that she should have had a male perform the pat-down. I am a little surprised that they would not have covered that part of the job in a training session, before they hit the floor.
