TSA May Make Special-Tactics Teams Fixture at Airports
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The U.S. Transportation Security Administration may permanently shift teams of specially trained officers that do random searches at train and bus stations to airports.
The biggest short-term change to agency practices after the Nov. 1 Los Angeles International Airport shooting has been moving some of its 37 Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response, or VIPR, teams around the U.S. from surface-transportation settings to airports, Administrator John Pistole said at a conference in Washington today.