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NYPD Dispatches Counterterror Officers to Landmarks Following Paris Attack

By Trevor Kapp | January 7, 2015 1:42pm
 The NYPD is redploying officers following the terrorist attack in Paris Wednesday morning.
The NYPD is redploying officers following the terrorist attack in Paris Wednesday morning.
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QUEENS — The NYPD is deploying counterterrorism officers to landmarks around the city following the terror attack in Paris Wednesday that left 12 people dead.

Emergency Service Unit officers, as well as Critical Response Vehicles, will move to specific locations around the city that the NYPD has deemed potential targets, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller said.

There is no specific threat to New York, police officials said.

“This is something that we do based on world events fairly often,” Miller said following an NYPD swearing-in ceremony at Queens College.

Members of the heavily armed Hercules team will join intelligence bureau and highway patrol officers "in a high-profile manner,” he added.

Masked gunmen carried out the Paris attack about 11 a.m. inside the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that had poked fun at the Islamic prophet Muhammad, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said.

Twelve people — including two police officers — were killed and the gunmen were still at large Wednesday afternoon, police said.

“These are not amateurs,” Bratton said of the "heavily armed" gunmen. “They are quite clearly well-trained professionals on a mission.”

“They conduct themselves in a way that indicates they have either been trained for this or have operated in a warzone somewhere in the world before.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio honored the victims with a moment of silence at the swearing-in ceremony.

“The eyes of the world are on Paris and the heinous terrorist attack that (tears) at the very fabric of a free society,” he said. “This is an attack on those who speak freely.”

Miller said the NYPD is in contact with its detective stationed in Paris and will try to learn from that attack to better protect New Yorkers.

“What we’re interested in is TTPs: training, tactics and procedures,” he said.

“What did the terrorists intend to do? How did they carry out that mission? What can we glean from that in terms of their training, tactics and procedures?”