LI cops' radiation detectors defend against terrorism
Photo credit: Daniel Goodrich | Suffolk County Police Inspector Stuart Cameron, Commanding Officer of the Special Patrol Bureau demonstrates a PRD, Personal Radiation Detector. (April 22, 2010)
Each day on Long Island, hundreds of police officers take to the roads to protect New York City from the unthinkable.
Wearing portable radiation detectors on their belts, officers in Suffolk and Nassau counties are on the front line of stopping terrorists from carrying out the kind of attack officials fear most: the detonation of a nuclear device or a radiologic "dirty" bomb.
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