{"id":146,"date":"2010-02-19T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T23:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=146"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:26:21","slug":"los-angeles-conventional-and-dirty-bomb-detecting-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles conventional and \u201cdirty\u201d bomb detecting ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Numerous intelligence agencies have indicated that the Los Angeles and Long Beach port area is a prime terrorist target. A major terror incident would not only cost many human lives but cost the United States economy one billion dollars a day.\nLos Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department combined efforts with the US Coast Guard, LA Port Police and the Long Beach Police for searching high interest vessels before they enter the heavily populated ports.\u00a0\u00a0 Designated high interest vessels are identified for pre-port entry searches in county waters outside of the port. A joint boarding team consisting of LASD Special Enforcement Bureau Emergency Services Detail, Arson\/Explosive canine detail, HAZMAT detail and Coast Guard members are transported via the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department Ocean Rescue boat.\nThe Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department Ocean Rescue Boat program, operated by the Special Enforcement Bureau\u2019s Emergency Services Detail and all trained Special Weapon Team members, divers and paramedics, began service in August of 2009. Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department personnel check vessels of interest for conventional and \u201cdirty\u201d bombs. Detection equipment is carried in backpacks and is set up to detect two types of radiation: neutron and gamma. Neutron radiation is indicative of nuclear bomb grade materials. Gamma rays are put out by a variety of isotopes. Dirty bombs would use isotopes that disperse gamma radiation.\nThe Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department Ocean Rescue Boat program covers 80 miles of Los Angeles County coast and the over 800 square miles of open ocean within Los Angeles County, including the islands of Catalina and San Clemente. Their boat was constructed with stringent United States Navy specifications: it is flame and projectile resistant, equipped with a crew served weapon system, outfitted with an air collar bumper system for boarding other ships or as supplemental flotation if the hull is breached.\u00a0 The boat also has federal, state, and military communications capability and can communicate with the Los Angeles County Medical Alert Center and all Los Angeles County-based trauma hospitals.\nThe boat has a range of several hundred miles and has the capability of staying on scene at an incident for up to one week. It generates its own electricity, has cooking, fresh water and refrigeration capabilities in addition to sleeping quarters. Another unique aspect of the boat is that it is a Los Angeles County Department of Health Services certified Advanced Life Support ambulance.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8339,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/8339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}