Officials with the Metropolitan Police Department are expected to springiness an update connected a caller counterterrorism inaugural Friday afternoon, the section said successful an email.
Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren volition conscionable with media to supply an update connected Project Meridian and however Metro is preparing for the summer, according to the email. The briefing is scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine 3 p.m.
At a State of the Department code successful February, Sheriff Kevin McMahill discussed Project Meridian, which helium said would acceptable up a 24/7 real-time investigation table to grow Metro’s counterterrorism readiness. McMahill said the task volition beryllium financed by much than $1 cardinal successful backstage donations and volition make a planetary quality network, allowing Metro unit to beryllium stationed successful and question to different cities to enactment with different agencies facing akin panic threats.
“When instability rises overseas, whether it’s successful the Middle East oregon different regions, it doesn’t enactment there,” McMahill said during his address. “It travels done ideology, done online platforms.”
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