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The recognition goes to agencies that achieve top scores during an annual review of 17 categories.
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The passive system triggers an alarm if an individual carrying/wearing a person-borne improvised explosive device passes by the mechanism.
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Known as a passive threat analysis system, the equipment monitors riders by measuring body density as they pass by, but doesn't require them to stop and empty their pockets to be checked.
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Virginia Railway Express; Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; Long Island Railroad; Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority and Hillsborough Area Regional Transit were recognized.
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Assessment includes a review of topics such as an agency's security plans, security training, drills/exercise programs, public outreach efforts and background check programs. Systems honored include N.Y. MTA, Boston’s MBTA and San Francisco’s BART.
Read More →Included a review of topics such as an agency's security plans, security training, drills/exercise programs, public outreach efforts and background check programs.
Read More →Assessment includes review of agency's security plans, security training, drills/exercise programs, public outreach efforts and background check programs.
Read More →Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response teams have run more than 9,300 unannounced checkpoints and other search operations in subways, train stations and other public transit locations in the last year.
Read More →Security countermeasures will provide additional right-of-way protections for passenger trains, particularly those operating on the Northeast Corridor. They will join existing Amtrak security efforts focusing on threats related to the use of improvised explosive devices in a station or on a train, or an active shooter scenario.
Read More →A $1.2 million Transportation Security Administration grant will help the agency to add closed circuit television cameras at the 10 remaining MAX stations currently without them. The grant also will fund security improvements at some facilities.
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