NY ramps up security for Times Square bash 31 Dec 2011 New York New York City police are gearing up for a massive security operation as the Big Apple prepares to usher in the New Year with a party expected to attract over one million revellers to Times Square. Thousands of police officers, including 1,550 newly minted graduates of the police academy, will take part in an operation New York police commissioner Ray Kelly said is the “biggest” of the year for the force. “Our helicopters will be up in the air and checking the 200-block area around Times Square,” Kelly told the CNN television network on Friday. “Everyone that enters the area will have to go through a magnetometry check.” Horse-mounted police officers, bomb-sniffing dogs and police patrol boats are also part of the security deployment. “We have heavy weapons response teams that are in, you know, appropriate locations,” Kelly said
NY ramps up security for Times Square bash
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