No threats to New Year's Eve celebrations - NYC police commissioner and mayor assure locals and visitors

Record ID: 1893235

  • Title: No threats to New Year's Eve celebrations - NYC police commissioner and mayor assure locals and visitors
  • Date: 30th December 2024
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (DECEMBER 28, 2024) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SHOUTING AND SHAKING LIGHT STICKS AT PROTEST AGAINST SUSPENDED SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT YOON SUK YEOL PROTESTERS CHANTING (Korean): “Immediately take him out of office, take him out, take him out!” FLAG READING (Korean): “Punish Yoon Suk Yeol” PROTESTERS SHOUTING ELECTRIC CANDLE-LIT SHAPED LIGHT STICKS PR
  • Embargoed: 13th January 2025 17:12
  • Keywords: NYPD New Year's Eve safety New Year's celebrations New Year’s Eve ball drop New York City Police Department New York Citys's Mayor Eric Adams Times Square security
  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: North America,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA00A008330122024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: New York City's Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch spoke on Monday (December 30) about the safety measures they were planning to implement during the New Year's celebrations in Times Square on Tuesday (December 31).
    "We are going to make sure we have the omnipresence of the blue uniform, who always bring that level of security, but there are many officers that have plainclothes assignments to give the element of surprise," said Adams. "And that would include officers from the Patrol Service Bureau, the Transit Bureau, the Intelligence and Counterintelligence Bureau, and Special Operations Division. We have plainclothes teams, canine teams, and officers on horseback, and helicopters, and on boats."
    Tisch said there are no specific credible threats to the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration.
    "However, we have been operating in a heightened threat environment since October 7th, and we remain vigilant," she said.
    Roughly one million people will participate in the New Year's Eve celebrations in person, and many more will watch the transmission on television and online.
    (Production: Justin Nathanson, Aleksandra Michalska)
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