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New York city is preparing to turn lower Manhattan into a "ring of steel" - to protect the nation's financial center from another major terrorist attack. Mindful that the worst domestic terror event ever to take place on American soil occurred at the World Trade Center complex in New York's financial district, New York police are taking steps to protect the vital area. The New York Stock Exchange, for example, finds its home on Wall Street. The "Wall Street Journal" reported Wednesday that the city's police force is modeling its security plans after London's so-called "ring of steel," a system of encircling narrow roads, few points of ingress and egress, and battalions of closed-circuit TV cameras. New York law enforcement officials have been given special tours of the London safeguards and are reportedly considering building a similar security ring around lower Manhattan. Paul Browne, the New York Police Department's (NYPD's) deputy commissioner of public information, is quoted by the "Journal" as saying that while it's "still too early in the process" to comment on specifics, police officials are indeed mulling the London model – with a special eye to more closed-circuit TVs in lower Manhattan and limiting and controlling entrances and exits into and out of the district. Today, London, reacting mostly to the Irish Republican Army bombings of the early 1990s, features 16 entry and 12 exit points where the roads were narrowed and marked with iron posts painted red, white and black. At each entry point, a camera scans license plates and sends the data to a computerized system that can flag wanted vehicles and notify a control room at police headquarters within seconds.
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