While in New York, he will make several stops in the city, necessitating a massive security effort that city officials said is one of the most extensive ever mounted.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation , the Secret Service and the NYPD will strike a “balance” in protecting Pope Francis during his visit to New York City on Thursday and Friday while also respecting his tendency to spontaneously dip into the crowd or allow people to come up to his vehicle, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday morning.
On Wednesday morning, Bratton checked out the security preparations at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where the pope will say evening vespers Thursday.
The NYPD says it has more than 6,000 cops assigned to the Pope and the United Nations, not to mention other resources. 600 officers will be on duty during his visit.
“We wanted to remind everybody on these details in all three cities about the way these things have happened in the past, the different ways they’ve been put together and when you look at”, Miller said. And last month a 15-year-old in New Jersey was arrested, who investigators say may have been communicating with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as part of a plan to build a bomb and carry out an attack against a visiting diplomat or the pope.
Catholic schoolchildren all over Miami celebrated Pope Francis’ visit by watching papal events as they unfolded in the nation’s capital. “For us, this is a security event, one of the highest level”. But we feel very confident. “The pieces are in place”. She won a ticket to the Pope’s mass at Madison Square Garden.
Everywhere the pope goes, he and the public can expect to be safe because the NYPD has anti-terrorism experience, de Blasio said.
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A police threat assessment produced for the USA visit of Pope Francis discusses the risk of possible attacks against large crowds and churches vulnerable to attack even if terrorists can’t get near the Pope. He’s never been to the U.S. Until yesterday. “It’s a lot of hardware and a lot of humans”. Scores of emergency service vehicles are being marshaled.
