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 NEW YORK (AP) - Police next week plan to roll out another anti-terrorism tool designed to stop bombers from attacking the city's subway system: portable explosive detection devices sometimes used at airports.
About a dozen high-tech detectors by various manufacturers — some resembling handheld vacuum cleaners, others the size of fax machines — will be positioned at subway entrances where officers conduct random bag searches, officials said Friday.
Instead of searching by hand, the officers will swab the outside of bags. The detectors can analyze the swabs for traces of explosives within a few seconds, police said.
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