Some have argued for more cops to be put on platform patrol duty.
For instance, mobile platforms including patrol and cargo airplanes, rescue helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), satellites, ground vehicles, and search & rescue (SAR) vessels are deployed for the gathering of information that is crucial for situation analysis and for the transportation of persons and supplies.
Sgt. Robert Brady, a transit bureau officer for the past seven years, usually patrols platforms throughout the city, but yesterday he was stepping onto trains, looking around and getting off.
But there remained the left-out spectators who really had no choice but to stay and try to imagine what was going on behind the big wall: the police officers who patrolled the platform, the supervisors who kept the trains rolling and the transit workers who were beginning in earnest to pick up after the crowd that had just surged through.
Mr. Sander said riders on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad would see more officers from the authority's police force walking through trains, checking bags and patrolling platforms, stations and parking lots.
Under a tactical plan called Operation Torch, the officers will board trains and patrol platforms, focusing on sites like Pennsylvania Station, Herald Square, Columbus Circle, Rockefeller Center and Times Square in Manhattan, and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.
The entire project was built on a Nissan Patrol 4×4 truck platform.
His crews now search for Italian warships, which patrol near an oil platform at Bouri, 70 miles from the Libyan coast.
A slew of rescue divers waited on one side of the pool, far below, with their equipment on, and a group of volunteers patrolled the top of the platform, making sure that people went in one at a time.
At the busy Friedrichstrasse station in Berlin, where national, regional and commuter train lines intersect, heavily armed officers in dark uniforms patrolled the platforms and entry and exit points during the afternoon rush.
However, after the Madrid train bombings in 2004 and the foiled plot to bomb the Yishun MRT Station, the operators deployed private, unarmed guards to patrol station platforms and check the belongings of commuters.
