Giuliani makes port security proposal

Giuliani makes port security proposal Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has proposed implementing a new port security law enforcement program if he is elected president.
   He said the program would be based on the “CompStat” initiative he launched as mayor of New York City.
   As with CompStat, the “PortStat” initiative would gather statistics on arrests, complaints, suspicious activities and other intelligence information that would detect criminal, security-breach and terrorist activity trends at airports and seaports around the country.
   The resulting intelligence data would assist federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in adjusting their security strategies in an ongoing and proactive basis.
   “The government and private sectors both within and without the United States, have spent billions since the attacks of Sept. 11 to secure international commerce. But is it working? PortStat can tell us that by identifying the strengths and the weaknesses along our supply chain,” he said.
   Giuliani unveiled the proposal last week when he was awarded the Fred V. Morrone Award at the International Port Security Conference of the International Association of Airport and Seaport Police. Morrone was the highest-ranking police officer killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York, serving as superintendent of police for the New York and New Jersey Port Police Department.