Dogs that can sniff out explosives and police trained to stop suicide bombers will patrol NYC as two million people flood Times Square for New Year’s Eve in the wake of attempted terror attack
Police will provide bigger security detail than ever before for this year’s event
It will cap off a year that saw a number of deadly attacks on innocent crowds
The stepped-up training is in response to an attempted bombing in a Times Square subway station walkway on December 11
By KHALEDA RAHMAN
DAILYMAIL.COM
29 December 2017
Officers with specialized training to stop suicide bombers will be on patrol at Sunday’s New Year’s Eve celebration when up to two million people will flood the streets of Times Square in New York.
Police are promising a bigger security detail than ever before for this year’s event which will cap off a year that saw a number of deadly attacks on innocent crowds – including a vehicle rampage at the very spot where revelers will ring in 2018.
The stepped-up training is in response to an attempted bombing in a Times Square subway station walkway on December 11.
And it comes on top of increasingly stringent security for the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration in the years since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
In addition to its usual army of snipers, bag-inspecting officers and metal detectors, the department this year is relying on help from a growing corps of ‘vapor wake’ dogs, which are trained to sniff out trace amounts of explosive particles that trail behind someone carrying a bomb.
More officers will be positioned throughout the area this year and all parking garages in the vicinity of Times Square will be emptied in advance of the celebration and sealed off, so no one has a chance to sneak in a car bomb, police said.
Police have said they will incorporate lessons learned from what they have labeled as three terrorist attacks in the city in the past 15 months, in addition to their ongoing analysis of all attacks worldwide.
That intelligence will form part of the massive security operation for the ‘ball drop’ celebration, a tradition that dates to 1907 and is now televised around the world.
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