County accepts homeland security grant
NORWICH – Chenango County leaders last week accepted a $24,800 terrorism prevention grant from the state’s criminal justice services.
The Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program grant provides state and local law enforcement communities with funds to support the following prevention activities: information sharing to pre-empt terrorist attacks; target hardening to reduce vulnerability of selected high value targets; recognition and mapping of potential or developing threats; interoperable communications; and, interdiction of terrorists before they can execute a threat or intervention activities that prevent terrorists from executing a threat.
It is the third year in a row that local officials have received LETPP funding. The grants have helped pay for a hi-tech, mobilized command center trailer, computers in police cars and computers for the 911 Emergency Dispatch Center at the Chenango County Public Safety Facility.
Sheriff Thomas J. Loughren said this year’s grant could be used to purchase computers for county and municipal police departments, enabling local police to communicate with county law enforcement, highway department workers, and state and federal security personnel.
“They would be able to tie directly into our dispatch center’s system that contains mapping and records,” he said. “Everybody’s connected and can talk whenever necessary via a private, secure dispatch. A police car could talk to a county highway truck, for example.”
As an executive board member of New York State’s Counter Terrorism Zone 6, Loughren said he meets once a month with state police, sheriffs from Broome, Otsego, Tioga, Delaware, Thompkins and Cortland counties as well as State University of New York representatives and cyberspace experts.
“We have specific investigators trained to investigate any calls we have and to report them back to the state,” he said.
He said the new public safety facility in the Town of Norwich is equipped with a wire tapping room, but it is not used for fighting terrorism. New live scan fingerprinting equipment, however, enables prints to be compared with databases from other counties, and state and federal law enforcement units within minutes.
“We used to have to send them by mail,” he said.
The Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program grant provides state and local law enforcement communities with funds to support the following prevention activities: information sharing to pre-empt terrorist attacks; target hardening to reduce vulnerability of selected high value targets; recognition and mapping of potential or developing threats; interoperable communications; and, interdiction of terrorists before they can execute a threat or intervention activities that prevent terrorists from executing a threat.
It is the third year in a row that local officials have received LETPP funding. The grants have helped pay for a hi-tech, mobilized command center trailer, computers in police cars and computers for the 911 Emergency Dispatch Center at the Chenango County Public Safety Facility.
Sheriff Thomas J. Loughren said this year’s grant could be used to purchase computers for county and municipal police departments, enabling local police to communicate with county law enforcement, highway department workers, and state and federal security personnel.
“They would be able to tie directly into our dispatch center’s system that contains mapping and records,” he said. “Everybody’s connected and can talk whenever necessary via a private, secure dispatch. A police car could talk to a county highway truck, for example.”
As an executive board member of New York State’s Counter Terrorism Zone 6, Loughren said he meets once a month with state police, sheriffs from Broome, Otsego, Tioga, Delaware, Thompkins and Cortland counties as well as State University of New York representatives and cyberspace experts.
“We have specific investigators trained to investigate any calls we have and to report them back to the state,” he said.
He said the new public safety facility in the Town of Norwich is equipped with a wire tapping room, but it is not used for fighting terrorism. New live scan fingerprinting equipment, however, enables prints to be compared with databases from other counties, and state and federal law enforcement units within minutes.
“We used to have to send them by mail,” he said.
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