Police in Nassau and Suffolk counties and the NYPD say they use an array of counterterrorism equipment and tactics in an effort to prevent a vehicle from being deployed as a weapon on crowds of ...

The NYPD will launch a unit of 350 cops to handle both counterterrorism and protests — riding vehicles equipped with machine guns and riot gear — under a re-engineering plan to be rolled ...

It’s the bomb. The NYPD showed off a slick piece of machinery in a video released Sunday, as Lt. Mark Torre gave a cyber-tour of the vehicle that hauled away an explosive the Chelsea bomber p… ...

The NYPD used its $3 million counterterrorism plane to shuttle Mayor Bill de Blasio to and from his Canadian ... God forbid there's an emergency somewhere in the city that needs this vehicle, ...

Thousands of spectators are expected to flock to Manhattan and Brooklyn to watch fireworks burst through the air from the East River at the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks show, one of the country’s ...

Sleek and fast, an NYPD catamaran is one of the newest weapons in the department's arsenal in the war on terrorism. In the midst of Fleet Week, the Counter Terrorism's Maritime Unit is on stepped ...

NYPD said today that additional counterterrorism officers and measures ... The NYPD’s Chief of Counterterrorism Martine Materasso began her comments by ... sand trucks and blocker vehicles, ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio hailed the unit as the latest effort to modernize the city’s counterterrorism efforts. Eventually, the team will grow to 560 members and will be outfitted with heavy ...

In March 2019, James Waters, Chief of the NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau, testified before Congress’s Committee on Homeland Security and declared: ... it is usually as a surveillance vehicle.

Almost two years before Sayfullo Saipov used a rented truck to run down cyclists and pedestrians in New York Tuesday, killing eight, authorities had been visiting vehicle rental businesses to help ...

A state appeals court said the NYPD doesn’t have to tell the public about how it has used X-ray vans to detect explosives or how much they cost. But it does have to tell them about radiation risks.