United States. Six years after the Sept. 11 attacks on the Twin Towers, NYPD Commander Raymond W. Kelly is preparing a security plan consisting of the installation of 3,000 cameras that will monitor southern Manhattan.The "Lower Manhattan Security Initiative" security plan aims to protect this financial area of New York, as it will cover the entire south of the island, from Canal Street to Battery Park, an area within which are the Wall Street Stock Exchange, the Federal Reserve Bank in New York and some major global financial institutions.
The first thousand cameras are expected to be installed in September 2008, another thousand within six months and the remaining ones in September 2009.
This plan also contemplates the installation of 110 vehicle license plate readers on bridges and other neighborhoods of New York with lower Manhattan and on the streets of that area, in addition to radiation detectors and traffic barriers.
Source: El Mexicano
