MIDTOWN — There were no "credible threats" to the city following the St. Petersburg, Russia bombing Monday morning, according to the NYPD’s counterterrorism unit.
Critical response officers were at sent to sensitive locations and transit hubs Monday, officials said.
There are no specific or credible threats to New York City pic.twitter.com/OC4gr1irnG
— NYPDCounterterrorism (@NYPDCT) April 3, 2017
Counterterrorism Bureau Chief James Waters said officers and bomb-sniffing dogs were automatically sent to locations like Times Square and Rockefeller Center after the Russia attack was first reported.
"And this is all to compliment the already robust presence of the transit bureau police, who are already out there riding the trains, working the platforms, using their transit dogs to keep New Yorkers safe,” Waters said.
Critical Response Officers are out on their daily deployments targeting sensitive locations & transit hubs around the city #NYPDprotecting pic.twitter.com/tw1SkulHUz
— NYPDCounterterrorism (@NYPDCT) April 3, 2017
"It's not just about what you see," said NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill at a Monday press conference, when asked about plainclothes officers patrolling after the bombing.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, also speaking at the press conference, said that New Yorkers should feel safe.
"New Yorkers should always remember that we have the strongest counter-terrorism capacity of any police force in America and that is every day out there to protect people, and now we've focused more on our subways to add to that protection," he said. "So people may see the officers with the long guns, and they may see the dogs, but that should be to them reassuring about the presence we have out there to protect them."
At least 10 people were killed when a bomb exploded in a subway train in the country’s second-largest city, according to multiple reports.
Russian authorities did not immediately say who they suspect carried out the attack.
