Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)
Las Vegas is a city that never slows down or turns off. Personnel from the Las Vegas police and fire departments, FBI, DHS, TSA, FAA, Homeland Security, and the National Weather Service, among others, operate this fusion center 24/7. All parties are focused on keeping attendees safe at the Super Bowl.
Planning for the Super Bowl “started over a year ago,” said Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jeremy Schwartz of FBI Las Vegas. The FBI provides bomb technicians, WMD experts, additional agents, and other operational resources to the city during the Super Bowl.
But what is most vauable, says Schwartz, is “having a full-time footprint at the fusion center in the Valley.”
Adam Seely, section lieutenant, Southern Nevada Counterterrorism Center, adds, “Having the FBI as part of the Southern Nevada Counterterrorism Center has helped us greatly. It’s enhanced our communications with our FBI partners, and we’re able to jointly work investigations with them. It’s a great working relationship … and it’s critical, especially, that we work with the fusion center to protect the city.”