The New York Police Department, says that its programme to protect the city against a terrorist strike by asking the people that "see something" to "say something of" helps protect against a specific city, but not confirmed terrorist threat against NYC and Washington.
Officials said senior police through civil vigilance campaign of the New York police, the number of reports of suspicious packages and vehicles is now double to triple the average daily.
Of Police Assistant Commissioner Paul Browne, head of communications Commissioner of police of Raymond w. Kelly and a key Adviser, said that, as of this afternoon, the number of reports of suspicious package throughout the city, which normally total approximately 15 per day, stood at 45 for the past eight hours - about three times the average number of reports.
Reports of suspicious vehicles, said, which normally total about 100 a day, amounted to 200 by the middle of the afternoon, or double the average daily.
"This shows that the campaign"If you see any thing, something to say"works," said Browne. "It's everything we wanted."
None of the reports proved to be connected to terrorist activities, he said. But it was less important than the fact that New Yorkers have been helping spot unusual or suspect activity.
Mr. Browne said that the bomb team was called to check on a report of unusual activity on the 59(e) Bridge Street some time after 20 Friday night. A passenger in a vehicle travelling slowly on the bridge because of checkpoints at the entrance to and exit from the bridge spotted what he considered an unusual cluster of gadgets and wires attached to one of the beams of the bridge. After the taking of a photograph of the suspicious cluster on his cell phone, he showed it to a police officer at a checkpoint on the bridge, Manhattan Browne said.
The police officer, called in turn, unit of the NYPD's Emergency Service, who then called the squad of bomb to test the beam from wire-laden suspect. The team quickly determined that there was no explosive material in the gadget and bomb that the device is connected to some ongoing work on the bridge. "But this is precisely what we want," said Browne.
By asking New Yorkers, in effect, as the police department civil eyes and ears, he said, millions of New Yorkers were potentially strengthen the effort of approximately 50,000 employees of the city, 34,000 of them uniformed officers, are to identify any suspicious activity.
Since the Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly held a press conference of 22 two days ago, the police service has flooded the city with an army of cops to identify suspicious activity and deter a terrorist strike on the city. The demonstration of force sparked a torrent of complaints of citizens on the snarled traffic, additional bags and backpack checks to the Metro and train stations and on the major bridges, tunnels and entry checkpoints to the points of the city. But Browne insisted that the city had no choice given that federal officials have been characterizing as a "credible" threat that Al Qaeda three car bombs were bound for New York, Washington and possibly up to five cities American to conduct a terrorist strike during the commemoration of the anniversary of 9/11.
Dependence of the city of his campaign "If you see any thing, say something" is regarded as highly effective by city officials and independent experts to fight against terrorism who have studied the program. Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security incorporated New York injunction in the Federal counter-terrorism effort.
And a report to the soon by the Policy Forum Madison, a group of experts in security based in New York, concluded that the campaign is not only very cost effective, but a multiplier of strength for the police.
"The program costs very little but effectively involves the public in his own defence, Michael Sheehan, former Assistant Commissioner NYPD for the fight against terrorism and the author of the study, said." "". "Tip-offs" of a member of family or community concerned that proved an extremely effective tool counter-terror, said.
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