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New York to deploy 700 police at rebuilt WTC site
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January 19, 2011, Wednesday
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NEARLY 700 police officers will guard the 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site where the World Trade Center is being rebuilt, under a new police command that is expected to be in place by the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the city's police chief said yesterday.
The site that was destroyed in 2001 had been attacked before, in a 1993 truck bombing, and police say it will remain a high priority target after the 104-floor One World Trade Center is completed, expected by 2013.
"To provide security for the memorial and, ultimately, the entire site, the Police Department has established a World Trade Center command and assigned a deputy inspector to oversee it," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told a gathering of the Police Foundation.
The police presence will ramp up as the buildings are completed and occupied, Kelly said, culminating at about 700 officers, of which 672 are to be from the New York police department.
Police have also been rapidly expanding a network of security cameras in the area.
Plans for the command center were first announced in July 2008, after the police reached an agreement with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the so-called Ground Zero site and has its own police force.
The completed Ground Zero project, now a teeming construction site, will consist of the memorial, four very tall buildings, a transportation hub and a performing arts center, all sitting on top of active subway and commuter rail lines.
The signature One World Trade Center -- formerly called the Freedom Tower -- is under construction and more than 50 stories tall, on its way to 104. Including its antenna, it will reach 1,776 feet, making it the tallest building in the United States upon completion, expected by 2013.
The site that was destroyed in 2001 had been attacked before, in a 1993 truck bombing, and police say it will remain a high priority target after the 104-floor One World Trade Center is completed, expected by 2013.
"To provide security for the memorial and, ultimately, the entire site, the Police Department has established a World Trade Center command and assigned a deputy inspector to oversee it," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told a gathering of the Police Foundation.
The police presence will ramp up as the buildings are completed and occupied, Kelly said, culminating at about 700 officers, of which 672 are to be from the New York police department.
Police have also been rapidly expanding a network of security cameras in the area.
Plans for the command center were first announced in July 2008, after the police reached an agreement with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the so-called Ground Zero site and has its own police force.
The completed Ground Zero project, now a teeming construction site, will consist of the memorial, four very tall buildings, a transportation hub and a performing arts center, all sitting on top of active subway and commuter rail lines.
The signature One World Trade Center -- formerly called the Freedom Tower -- is under construction and more than 50 stories tall, on its way to 104. Including its antenna, it will reach 1,776 feet, making it the tallest building in the United States upon completion, expected by 2013.
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