61319488 NYPD prepared to shoot down planes
NYPD is ready to shoot down planes if necessary. This was, according to Associated Press, said the police commissioner of New York City, Ray Kelly (Ray Kelly) in "60 minutes ", overlooking the channel CBS. Kelly, in particular, said that after the attacks of September 11, 2001, in the structure of the NYPD, it was decided to create their own counterterrorism unit. Terrorist attacks, he said, showed that the city can not rely only on federal power. NYPD, told Kelly, has developed action plans in different situations, including the one in which the need to shoot down aircraft. How the NYPD is going to shoot down planes, he did not specify, saying only that such a decision can be made only "in an extreme situation, ". Among other measures, which should help the NYPD to combat terrorism, Kelly described the installation of radiation detectors, a network of surveillance cameras in Manhattan, as well as the direction of police officers for training in foreign countries. Ray Kelly Interview Program "60 minutes " aired on Sunday evening, Sept. 25, two weeks after the 10th anniversary of the 9 / 11. Then the terrorists took a few passenger planes, two of which crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York. The victims were almost three thousand people. Ray Kelly twice served as police commissioner of New York – in 1992-1994 and from 2004 to the present. In mid-September 2011 it was reported that police in New York after the attacks of 9 / 11 launched a massive operation to collect data about American Muslims. According to the Associated Press, to help the police in this operation, provided the CIA, thus violating the ban on conduct of intelligence activities in the country.
