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Now been trained to do which is the first patrol officers responded and then they send in the srg, their strategic response command which is this group of heavily armed officers themselves with rifles, semi automatic rifles, and their job is to enter in to that building and quickly confront whoever is shooting. there has been some conflicting reports about smoke on some of the floors where the shooting activity may have taken place. right now that is under investigation. it doesnt appear to have...

Heres what new york city mayor bill de blasio had to say. >> when incidents occur such as the one in london last night, we put our special units such as a critical response command, on key duty at locations around the city, particularly well traveled, particularly prominent, all relate to the attack that was undertaken. that means new yorkers today will see a heavier presence at key locations around the city. you will see a stronger police presence including our counter-ter are forces. >> martin...

Is the bomb squad, radiation detection, network of camera systems, the explosive detection dogs, the biohazard detection devices, or the intelligence bureau which is the investigations, the sources of information. >> layer 1, office was armed with long guns visible to the public regarding the tower. together with the secret service the counterterrorism trigger critical response command has every step covered. layer 2, not so visible nypd counter sniper teams. and we got an exclusive behind the s...

Detection, network of camera systems, the explosive detection dogs, the biohazard detection devices, or the intelligence bureau which is the investigations, the sources of information. >> layer 1, office was armed with long guns visible to the public regarding the tower. together with the secret service the counterterrorism trigger critical response command has every step covered. layer 2, not so visible nypd counter sniper teams. and we got an exclusive behind the scenes look at how they train ...

I might have to shout at you. i have serious news tonight in istanbul, turkey, with a terrorist attack. how has that changed the way youre handling security here at times square? >> first of all, happy new year. we have to look at not only what goes on in new york or the united states, we have to take a look at whats beginning on in the world. and as soon as we heard about whats happening in turkey, we redeployed assets all over the city. some of our critical response command. some of our task f...

All the time or you protect nothing. so we do analysis of high visibility locations and then we protect them. >> ayman, this is also the first holiday season that the nypd trained an elite police unit called the critical response command and they are saw especially patrolling high traffic areas like this. >> thank you very much for that, morgan. if there isnt security concerns there, may be another type of concern that travelers are concerned about, and thats going to be weather and the affect t...

As you mentioned, police are going to be everywhere. in fact, there are going to be about 6,000 police here in this area right here in times square. around 1200 of those police officers have just graduated from the academy. now new york citys mayor and the nypd say that everyone can count on being safe as they ring in the new year here. >> well, we can assure you is that the preparations are extraordinary, and we are benefiting now from a new critical response command. we have a constant threat ...

Critical response command. >> we have a constant threat analysis stream that we are constantly reviewing. but again we are not aware of any threat at this time be deemed credible at this event in times square. >> people should feel safe this new years eve because they awe there. >> among those security measures there will be a bomb squad a plain clothed officer and terrorism unit with 500 officers. those coming to times square will have to face security measures. there will be no backpacks or du...

The u.n. general assembly. that came off without a hitch. the thanksgiving parade had several million people, that came off without a hitch. we have the capacity. and as i said, now, a 500-plus anti-terror dedicated force that specializes in. youll see them tonight. youll see lots of police officers in regular uniforms with regular weaponry. youll see the heavily arms officers from our critical response command. we can protect people in a very special way here in this city. anyone who goes into ...

On being safe. >> what we can assure you is the preparations are extraordinary and we are benefitting from a new element that is our critical response command. >> we have a constant analysis threat stream that we are constantly reviewing. again, we are not aware of any threat at this time that we deem credible to this event in times square. >> the nypd, people should feel safe this new years eve because were there. >> reporter: and among those new elements that are in place, the newly establishe...