<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.print.php?id=99135> http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.print.php?id=99135 Government Technology TSA Designs Curriculum to Spot Terrorist-Related Activity By News Staff Apr 11, 2006 The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) <http://www.tsa.gov/> this week launched a campaign to ensure that state and local law enforcement officers throughout the U.S. are trained to detect potential terrorist-related activities in their communities and on their roadways. TSA has commissioned the Counterterrorism Division of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), located in Glynco, Ga., to create a training program that will help state, local and municipal police officers to identify potential terrorist-related planning activities the officers may encounter in the course of their duties. The pilot training program, which will take place from April 10 through April 14, will place a special focus on commercial vehicles. The officers will be trained in spotting suspicious driver behavior, identifying fraudulent driver's licenses and counterfeit commercial vehicle documents, and search techniques to locate suspected weapons of mass destruction. "With this important and bold new program, TSA and the FLETC will assist law enforcement officers nationwide to train others in their communities to identify suspicious -- and possibly terrorist-related -- behavior," said William Arrington, Acting General Manager for TSA's Highway and Motor Carrier division. "Our best assets in securing the homeland are people on the ground, in our towns and cities." The FLETC, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, currently conducts training for federal law enforcement officers and agents from more than 80 agencies. TSA has joined with the Center to create a program which combines state, local and municipal law enforcement officers' expertise with the FLETC's counterterrorism knowledge to meet the needs and practices of roadside enforcement officers across the nation. With the support of TSA funding, the FLETC will combine existing counterterrorism training instruction with roadside-specific methodologies that will then be delivered this year to as many as 90 state, local and municipal enforcement officers across the country. Those 90 will then be prepared to return to their communities to serve as trainers for other officers within their home agency or in nearby communities. Employing a "train-the-trainer" approach will allow the TSA/FLETC training program to reach enforcement agencies at the federal, state and local levels quickly and effectively. As more officers are trained, TSA and the FLETC will work to ensure that the course of instruction remains current. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
