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The bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 signaled the beginning of a new phase in the global fight against terror: for the first time, a terrorist attack was brought to American soil from another country.

Fortunately for all of us, terrorists have not struck the United States, on our soil, since September 11, 2001.  This is partly the result of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security having undertaken crucial initiatives to protect our borders and our citizens.  However, American law enforcement and intelligence agencies face threats of unprecedented terrorism and criminal extremism on a daily basis.  Proper training is essential in the war on terror and for the day-to-day dangers faced by law enforcement and military personnel alike.

Can these events happen again?  We all know the answer to that question and that is why the most important training is in identification and interdiction, not in response and cleanup.  Stopping terrorists before they board the next plane, bus, train, or boat  is critical and assigning officers to departmental or regional terrorist interdiction units is essential.  How we develop those types of units is the focus of this course.

Workshop Content:

• Creating a Counter Terrorism Unit:  Considerations and Purpose 
• Advantages and Necessity of a CT Unit:   
• Understanding the Current Terrorist Threat
• Analysis of the Future Terrorist Threat
• Investigating Terrorist Leads
• Counter-Terrorist Interdiction
• Interdicting Crimes and Funding Mechanisms of Terrorists in the United States
• Identifying Local Terrorist Plots
• Resources for Related Terrorist Data 
• Understanding Intelligence (HUMINT, OSINT, SIGINT, IMINT, etc...)
• Developing your Own Intelligence
• Developing a JTTF liaison
• Personnel Selection
• Confidentiality, Secrecy, and Classified
• Top Secret Clearances 
• Understanding Vulnerabilities
• Overview of Vulnerability studies
• Deployment of TIU
• Utilization of Undercover Officers and Confidential Informants
• Target Hardening
• Infrastructure Protection
• Interagency Cooperation
• Multijurisdictional Investigations and deployment
• Contemporary Homeland Security
• Before Ground Zero (TM)
• Suicide Bomber prevention
• The Proactive Debriefing of Suspected Terrorists

Instructors:

Det. Sgt. Peter Caram (Ret.)

Det. Sgt Peter Caram, (Ret.) Port Authority Police Department of New York/New Jersey (PAPD), former commander and creator of the PAPD Counter-terrorism Unit.  This unique unit was responsible for conducting vulnerability studies throughout the Port of NY/NJ district and was responsible for investigating terrorism and target hardening for the PAPD and its vast properties, bridges, tunnels, airports, buses, trains and related ports and transportation systems in the NY/NJ region.  The unit collected terrorist information and conducted proactive counter-terrorist investigations in conjunction with the FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force and affiliated law enforcement agencies.   Sgt. Caram retired after 25 years of service that were primarily spent in the counter-terrorism intelligence field developing intelligence operations and training programs for the Port Authority Police Department.

During his career, Sgt. Caram was cross-designated as a Deputy United States Marshal, a member of the Joint Terrorist Task Force, a special agent with the US Customs Office of Investigations, and a Special Agent with the US. Drug Enforcement Administration. He co-founded (ALEAN) Airport Law Enforcement Network, an organization dedicated to the exchange of criminal and terrorist intelligence information to insure the safety of the traveling public throughout the United States and Internationally.

He was the primary representative to (MAGLOCLEN) Middle Atlantic Great Lakes Organzied Crime Networkand is a member of the International Counter-Terrorist Officers Association and author of The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing: Foresight and Warning, There is No Failure in the World of Jihad, published just after the tragedy of 9/11.  This work has become required reading in many criminal justice courses at universities and police academies. He has been a guest on many television and radio programs as an expert on fundamentalist-terrorism and has been consulted frequently by many governmental agencies including the US Department of State Middle Eastern Crisis Desk.  Sgt. Caram currently teaches Criminal Justice related courses at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Det. Sgt. Lou Savelli (Ret.)

Detective Sgt Lou Savelli, (Ret.) NYPD retired in 2004 as one of the most decorated officers in NYPD history. He was the Detective Squad Commander of the Terrorism Interdiction Unit (TIU) which was formed on 9/11/01.  It's mission:  investigate the attacks on the World Trade Center and seek out Al Qaeda sleeper cells operating in the United States.   Following his retirement, his former unit, the NYPD Terrorism Interdiction Unit (TIU), was responsible for uncovering the New York Subway System Terror Plot in 2004.  The TIU is now the model for proactive counter-terrorism units in major cities across the United States.   

Prior to the TIU, Sgt. Savelli was the Detective Squad Commander of the Gang Division Major Case Squad.  This unit was created from the NYPD's first Citywide Anti-Gang Enforcement (CAGE) Unit.  The CAGE Unit was created by Sgt. Savelli in 1996 and because of its success, it was recognized as the Most Effective Gang Unit in the United States.  As a Detective, he was a member of the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force where he specialized in money laundering cartels and international drug trafficking organizations such as the Cali Columbian Drug Cartel. In fact, he and his drug unit made the Largest Cash Seizure in World History to date:  $20 million dollars. In addition, he is co-founder and current first vice-president of the East Coast Gang Investigators Association. 

Sgt. Savelli was twice awarded Supervisor of the Year out of 20,000 supervisors of all ranks and named one of NYPD's Top 10 Most Effective Leaders.