Tag: Command Center

NEW YORK -- The setting could pass for a high-tech trading floor: men in dark suits, sitting at tiered banks of desks, studying a steady stream of video and data ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Sometime on Monday, as Hurricane Gustav's winds whipped, New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley climbed atop a stack of wooden pallets inside the darkened Ernest N. Morial ...

CAMDEN, N.J. -- Camden Deputy Police Chief John Scott Thomson yesterday was promoted to chief of police, taking over a department struggling to control drug dealing, gang warfare, and a ...

The first thing that often comes to mind when talking about school emergencies is a shooting, but if you had any type of a major incident, an active shooter, severe ...

WASHINGTON -- From a dimly lit room in a secure command center, 21 streaming video feeds from 4,775 surveillance cameras around the nation's capital are projected across three screens and ...

NEW YORK -- On a cloudless spring day, the NYPD helicopter soars over the city, its sights set on the Statue of Liberty. A dramatic close-up of Lady Liberty's frozen ...

The fight against terrorism is fought not by armies, but by public and private security organizations that work to counteract terrorism in major cities. To develop tactics in this war, ...

On Sept. 2, Illinois law enforcement personnel responded to an Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) request from Louisiana officials for assistance "as soon as possible." One hundred and fifty officers ...