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It’s a one-stop place where 70,000 officers in the New York/Vermont areas bring information they have collected on their beats—information on terrorist, drug, financial, and violent crime threats—and share it seamlessly with each other, with their state and local colleagues, and with federal agencies like us. It’s also a place where those 70,000 officers get information and training from us and other agencies on what criminal and terrorist suspects and behaviors they should be looking for, based on intelligence gleaned from international, national, and regional sources.

How will the Counter-Terrorism Unit operate? Well, 24/7, for one—and at the “secret” level of classification. Beyond that, it’s designed to:

• coordinate real-time info sharing among state and local law enforcement and the three New York state FBI Joint Terrorist Task Forces (JTTFs);
• share FBI intelligence and suggested strategies to police officers who are not members of a JTTF;
• immediately forward leads from those 70,000 state and local “eyes and ears” to FBI intelligence analysts for processing; and
• sharpen the ability of officers on the street to recognize possible terrorist surveillance, rehearsal, fundraising, or training.

 (Source: FBI.gov)