A growing focus on train travel comes exactly as railways become increasingly modernized by adopting connected technologies.
Technology works by showing the size, shape and location of any concealed items that block a person’s body heat.
Passengers are required to link their identification to their photos using a mobile phone application or station kiosk.
The five-year, multi-agency approach includes the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Los Angeles Police Department and Long Beach Police Department.
The incident happened at 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the Coliseum Station in Oakland aboard a Dublin/Pleasanton-bound train.
Investigator O’Keefe was able to link several thefts of rental cars from Wilmington Station to a large-scale auto-theft ring operating out of Delaware and Pennsylvania.
Outward-facing cameras will be used to record track and wayside activities, and inward-facing cameras will be used to record the engineer’s control area while the train is in operation.
Police Commissioner William Bratton acknowledges he is targeting subway acrobats as part of his embrace that low-grade lawlessness can cultivate a greater sense of disorder and embolden more dangerous offenders.
New measures may include greater scrutiny of checked baggage, more inspections by bomb-sniffing dogs and security checks on passengers.
Part of an effort to enhance security after an alleged terrorist plot to derail one of its trains. VIA Rail does not typically check IDs.
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