Bus drivers on alert.A new line of defense is getting trained to combat potential terrorism: School bus drivers. The new School Bus Watch program has already trained 30,000 drivers out of a total of 600,000 school bus drivers nationwide, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Robin Leeds Leeds, city (1991 pop. 445,242) and metropolitan district, N central England, on the Aire River. It lies between one of England's leading manufacturing regions on the west and south and an agricultural region on the north and east. , industry specialist for National School Transportation Association, one of the collaborating groups. The goal is to get them all trained to keep an eye out for suspicious packages left on school buses, strange things hidden in wheel wells, or strangers Strangers can mean:
The program, financed by the Homeland Security Department There were gaps in the U.S. system for detecting and deterring terrorist acts in the homeland. That became clear September 11, 2001. The Department of Homeland Security is the george w. bush administration's plug for those gaps. , expands on the Highway Watch program, which involved transportation workers and truck drivers. Armed with cell phones and identification numbers, bus drivers can call in suspicious activity on buses or on their routes. To date, there have been no reported suspicious incidents, Leeds says. |
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