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Wartime Security Plan to Continue in New York

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Despite an anticipated victory on the Iraqi battlefield and a heavy financial burden, Operation Atlas, a wartime security plan, will continue in New York City, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Wednesday.

He said that as the threat of terrorism remains, the wartime security will continue, but some changes will be made.

Kelly said many of the officers on counter-terrorism duty are exhausted, so he wanted to give them a break, adding that they would be working shorter days, but six days a week.

"You can't keep working them for 12 hours a day. It takes its toll," he said.

Operation Atlas is already taking its toll on the city's finances. The much-touted security strategy, which has police at checkpoints, manning bridges and tunnels and patrolling landmarks,costs the city 5 million US dollars per week.

Officials said the situation will not change anytime soon. Instead, the Police Department will continue to move officers around. Kelly said his intelligence chiefs have studied 26 al-Qaeda terror manuals and remain convinced that mixing the places where the police are stationed can foil a terrorist plot.

"Atlas remains at full strength, but you may see it look different so that anyone doing reconnaissance on us wouldn't see apattern," he said.

New York City is hoping that federal and state governments will pay for Operation Atlas, since Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered the city's police department to cut its budget by 7 percent.

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