Boston probably did everything it could — says a man who should know. Israel Police Chief Yochanan Danino, who runs terror-ravaged nation’s civilian security force, doesn’t believe the city’s cops could have done anything to prevent the terrorist attack that killed three and wounded 184, he said Wednesday. “(Boston police) probably did what they could have done,” said Danino, who is visiting New York City to meet with Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and survey the NYPD’s “ring of steel” — a surveillance camera network that blankets Midtown Manhattan. “I just hope that what is a reality in Israel won’t be a reality in the U.S.,” he added.
Israeli Chief Police Commissioner Yochanan Danino is in town to visit with his NYPD counterpart, Raymond Kelly.
Danino said terrorist attacks in Israel can be as simple as someone running up and stabbing a police officer to a coordinated plot like the one that occurred Wednesday morning, when someone fired two rockets into the Red Sea resort town of Eilat. No one was injured.
Danino’s visit to New York was planned long in advance of Monday’s terrorist attack. Still, news of the Beantown blast hit home, especially since marathons are quite popular in Israel. Security at such public events in the land of milk and honey are handled a bit differently than in the U.S., Danino explained. “The police control everything,” Danino said. “There is one commander and it’s the police.”
Danino said no Israeli event — no matter how far in advance it’s been planned — can go off without approval from a bomb squad and his police force. “Sometimes people don’t like it, but they realize that ... it’s the best way to handle terrorist events.” Danino will be meeting Kelly for the next few days continue cooperating on counter-terrorism.
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