in addition to the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. Now officers are assigned to the specific unit and receive training on counterterrorism as well as how to protect critical locations across the ...

A unit in the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau trained to respond ... Members of the unit are “trained in special weapons and long-range guns, explosive trace detection, radiological and nuclear ...

The New York Police Department's counterterrorism unit is the gold standard for major ... According to the NYPD, their Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau is the largest municipal operation ...

The New York Police Department announced Tuesday that it would disband a special unit ... While terrorism in the U.S. remains a serious threat, the measurable results of the NYPD spying program ...

Unique among major municipal police departments, NYPD’s ILP is part of a robust anti-terrorism initiative designed ... Motivated Extremism (REME) unit. More recently, a domestic liaison provided ...

Officers in the NYPD's counterterrorism unit could be slashed by up to 75% and take 240 of its 300 cops to be assigned to street-level patrols as the force faces a staffing crisis. Members of ...

But now cops will work under a specialized unit and receive special training and weapons ... consist of 350 officers assigned to the NYPD's counter-terrorism bureau, the Daily News reported.

At the time, fewer than two dozen of the force's 39,000 officers were working full time on terrorism, all assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, then the only NYPD unit assigned to the issue.

A New York Police Department counterterrorism unit that's the "first line of defense" against a potential terror attack faces staffing cuts of up to 75%, according to ...

Earlier this week, New York City’s police department for the first time deployed a special counter-terrorism ... unit is intended to be a rapid-reaction force in the event of a terrorist attack ...