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Lake Assault Boats has delivered a new vessel to the Hennepin County (MN) Sheriff’s Water Patrol Unit located in Minneapolis.
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FINDAR enables police to quickly locate metallic and non-metallic buried evidence for further investigation. Officers are able to find weapons, caches of drugs or money, clandestine graves, hidden bunkers, or soil disturbances.
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Using the Findar GPR system, officers can locate weapons, caches of drugs or money, clandestine graves, hidden bunkers, or soil disturbances that have been buried, and download the images to a PC in real time.
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Side-scan sonar is known as a "towfish" — it's a torpedo-like device towed behind a boat. The towfish converts acoustic sound pulses into a video image of the river bottom. To a trained operator, the resulting image offers a photographic view of the bottom that can be used to identify items of interest.
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Thirty-seven. That's how many New York/New Jersey Port Authority Police officers came to work on Sept. 11, 2001, and never went home. More than 2 percent of the agency's complement of 1,400 was killed in the attack, and to add insult to extreme injury, its headquarters were on the 67th floor of 1 World Trade Center.
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