Aug 12, 2008 8:45 am US/Central
NYC Plans To Track All Vehicles In Manhattan
Radiation Censors, Surveillance Cameras Used To Screen & Follow Every Vehicle Entering Lower Manhattan
Plan Aims To Provide Security Blanket Against Terrorist Attack
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The NYPD published a new report highlighting the details of a their initiative aimed at preventing a third terrorist attack on Lower Manhattan. The George Washington Bridge, seen here, will have surveillance cameras and censors to track vehicles into NYC.
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The New York Police Department is working on a plan to track every single vehicle that enters Manhattan.
The initiative, called "Operation Sentinel," is aimed at preventing terror attacks. With the use of cameras and radiation censors, police plan to track anything and everything that enters the Big Apple, reported CBS station WCBS-TV in New York.
The NYPD wants to photograph the license plates of every vehicle coming into Manhattan and keep the image and information in a database.
The proposal is part of a multimillion dollar plan to secure lower Manhattan. It includes cameras, license plate readers and radiation detectors.
They would be set up at 7 vehicle crossings that function as major arteries into Manhattan.
Smaller bridges will also be included in the proposal.
It is unclear exactly when "Operation Sentinel" would be complete, but the lower Manhattan initiative part of the plan to secure the city's financial district is expected to be in place by 2010.
If after a month a registered license plate number is of no use to the police, it will be erased from the system.
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