Police set up a hidden camera inside the belly of a plane last year and caught baggage handlers rifling through luggage and stealing various items. (Screengrab, CNN)

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Footage shows airport workers stealing from luggage inside plane — VIDEO

By SCOTT ZAMOST, DREW GRIFFIN and CURT DEVINE CNN

April 14, 2015 - 11:51 am

Inside a plane at Miami International Airport, baggage handlers are going on a shopping spree with passengers’ bags.

What they don’t know is that they are being recorded on a hidden camera. The Miami-Dade Police Department set up the camera as part of an ongoing police investigation into luggage thefts by the very airport workers who are supposed to get bags safely onto planes.

“It’s a problem we all face,” said police Lt. Pete Estis. “We will continue to be proactive until we can see that the claims of pilfering through luggage will actually decrease.”