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Boston Police Gets Expert Aid on Security for Democratic National Convention.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2004
By Andrea Estes, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 9--In preparation for the Democratic National Convention, Boston police are getting training from Israeli suicide terrorism specialists and crowd-control tacticians in Northern Ireland and Philadelphia, where police cracked down on protesters during the 2000 Republican convention, according to a document obtained by the Globe.
The Boston Police Department's operational plan for the convention calls for police to work 12-hour shifts, equipped with riot gear, and provides new details about the city's security efforts during the first political convention since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
City and police officials say they are trying to devise an airtight...
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