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PoliceOne Member News Week 399 August 20, 2008 |
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WMD and Bomb Disposal Issues |
Creating a suspicious item SOP |
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by Shawn Hughes PoliceOne columnist |
I’ve been having an interesting discussion with a friend and reader who is rightly concerned about the conundrum of responding to a call concerning a suspicious item. “Maybe it’s a bomb; maybe it’s someone’s nasty, dirty, garbage…” The underlying problem is in being wrong; if we decide it isn’t a bomb and it is, then we add a name or two to the wall
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| NYPD plan to screen vehicles raises questions |
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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department is working on a plan to track every car, truck or other vehicle entering Manhattan and screen them for radioactive materials and other terrorism threats. The ambitious proposal, called Operation Sentinel, is being developed alongside a separate $90 million security initiative to tighten security at the World Trade Center site and elsewhere in lower Manhattan in response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Police officials say Operation Sentinel would rely on license-plate readers, radiation detectors and closed-circuit cameras ... Full Story |
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