July 27, 2005
NYPD In Canada
The New York Police Department has taken the fight against terrorism into Canada. It's part of a NYPD plan to improve intelligence gathering and Intel sharing around the world. Currently there are NYPD detectives based in Toronto and Montreal in a counter terrorism cooperative effort.NYPD Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told Canada Free Press, "Toronto and Montreal were obvious candidates because they have very good law enforcement and a nexus to Islamic terrorism."
The program was put into place after September 11, 2001, shortly after New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was sworn into office. Top cop, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, appointed by Mayor Bloomberg, created the liaison program. Commissioner Kelly is accredited for transforming the existing New York intelligence division whose prior primary mission focused on coordinating security for visiting dignitaries and diplomats into a division dedicated to intelligence gathering and analysis with a global reach in the fight against terrorism.
Taking an untraditional route Commissioner Kelly persuaded and recruited former CIA Director of Operations, David Cohen, out of public life and charged him with task of heading up the massive restructuring of the New York City intelligence department. Cohen, now New York's Deputy Director of Intelligence, garnered thirty-one years of experience at the CIA specializing in analysis and intelligence.
Since it's inception almost four years ago the program has grown. In addition to detectives based in Canada there are NYPD liaisons assigned in London working with Scotland Yard, in Lyons working out of Interpol headquarters, Singapore and Tel Aviv with hopes to increase their presence in the Middle East. Canada Free Press has learned that an expected agreement with Jordan is due to be announced in the near future.
Read the whole thing here.
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