Around 7 30 p.m., several paramedic trucks surrounded a mobile command unit and officials from local police agencies, Customs and Border Control and other law enforcement agencies milled about, as a Coast Guard ship returned with survivors and the dead bodies in silver bags.
The FV430 vehicles were made in many versions, including mobile command posts and ambulances.
The department has deployed hundreds of officers, a mobile command unit and a helicopter to monitor the rides, which wend their way through Manhattan on the last Friday of each month.
Patrol cars, uniformed officers and mobile command trucks crowd once-quiet corners.
The police have set up a mobile command post at Fifth Avenue and Prospect Avenue and now have 30 officers on patrol each evening in the area bounded by 15th and 30th Streets and Fourth and Seventh Avenues, said a community affairs officer from the 72nd Precinct, Frank Siclari.
Several armored vehicles used by commanders as mobile command posts were damaged but not destroyed.
Tim Bayard, the vice-and-narcotics commander, finally found the mobile command post he had needed so badly the first week of the flood: driving through the Lower Ninth Ward, he saw it in a parking lot.
But when the Prudential Center opened with a series of Bon Jovi concerts, the police established a mobile command center near the arena and a huge presence for blocks around, to make sure people felt safe.
"There were dozens of patrol units, a SWAT team, mobile command post, a fire truck, and paramedics," he said.
The iPhone 6 Plus is a great mobile command center for work uses, and I think that its adoption will spell that out.
