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(37,449 posts)Securing the City: Inside Americas Best Counterterror ForceThe NYPD
By Christopher Dickey. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009.
Joint Terrorist Task force est. 1980 FBI in NY city
National Joint Terrorist TF est. by FBI Director 2002
Foreign Terrorist TF est. Presidential Directive 2 - 10/2001
Responds to requests received from the Counterterrorism
Divisions operational units, the CIA and the JTTFs to perform
data runs against public,proprietary, and government data
systems. Maintains the Consolidated Terrorist List that combines the
FBIs Violent Gang and Terrorist list.
912 members before September 11, 2001. As of January 2005,
5,085 federal, state, and local members from law enforcement, intelligence, the military,
and other agencies
The JTTF members can include, but are not limited to:
Federal partners:
Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Defense: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Department of Justice: U.S. Marshals Service; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Federal Bureau of Prisons U.S. Department of Treasury: Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Capitol Police, U.S. Park Police
State partners: State police & State highway patrols