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"First Observer" program * USA - Truckers learn to watch out for terrorists
A local truck driving school became the first on the West Coast to be trained for a new federal anti-terrorism program
Vallejo,CAL,USA -The Times Herald, by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen -10 Sept 2009: ... Robert Hertan, an instructor from Maryland-based Total Security Services International, Inc., led the three-hour class at Vallejo's Falcon Truck School recently. He said the federal Transportation Security Administration hired his firm to train transportation professionals for the "First Observer" program... "This is a Department of Homeland Security program, funded by FEMA and administered by the TSA," Hertan said... The heart of the training is to use truckers to keep an eye out for -- and report -- suspicious behavior that could be part of a terrorist operation or some other attack like that on the state capitol eight years ago... By example: Certain graffiti can be a terrorist message, the men were told. People hanging around where they don't seem to belong, a gas tanker parked on the Bay Bridge or downtown -- anything a trucker might recognize as unusual or out of place, should prompt a call, the truckers learned...
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