Rare glimpse into security measures in place for the United Nations annual meeting of world leaders

(21 Sep 2024)
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United Nations – 20 September 2024
1. Wide, United Nations Security Operations Center
2. Various, Close, video monitor screen
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Inspector Malinda McCormack, United Nations Security and Safety Service:
“Welcome to our Security Operation Center. We call this the brain center. This is where we receive information, we analyze the information, and then we disseminate the information to everyone.”
4. Various, close, video monitor screen
5. Tilt from desk to monitor wall
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Inspector Malinda McCormack, United Nations Security and Safety Service:
“We do surveillance. We monitor alarms, our daily UN HQ operations where we depend a lot on local, state and federal host country counterparts.”
7. U.N. security officer at desk UPSOUND: Security Operations. Good afternoon. How can I help you?
8. Video surveillance of United Nations elevators
9. Wide, security officer standing with monitor wall in the background
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Inspector Malinda McCormack, United Nations Security and Safety Service:
“Sometimes we screen during the high-level period up to 22,000 delegate staff and non-UN entities per day, 22,000. That is a high number. Then our cameras, which will go into a little bit of detail more. We have over 1,400 cameras that we monitor daily.”
11. Exterior, surveillance cameras on U.N. building
12. Exterior, U.N. security check point entrance
13. Exterior, surveillance cameras on U.N. security building
14. Exterior, U.N. security officers inside vehicle check point entrance
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Senior Officer Jeff Kim, United Nations Security and Safety Service:
“We can’t monitor all 1,400 at the same time. We rely on our officers outside also to call us if they see something. And then we’ll zoom in on the camera and situation and then report to our supervisor.”
16. Various, U.N security officers at desks inside the Operations Center
17. Close, video wall of heat signature cameras
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Kim, United Nations Security and Safety Service:
“So this picks up the heat signatures. We also have motion alarms. So if somebody comes through they’ll trip the motion we’ll get the alarms. These are some of the alarms you’re hearing right now… UPSOUND: Alarm activated.”
18. Wide, Joint Operations Center inside the United Nations
20. Close, Joint Operations Center video wall
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Assistant Chief Drasko Galic, Joint Operations Center:
“The Joint Operations Center or as we call it, JOC, plays an important role, and it serves as a central hub for coordination, management and decision making for this really important and complex security operation.”
22. Various, representatives from different agencies working inside the Joint Operations Center – Dept. of Defense, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Dept. of State, FBI, Joint Terrorism Task Force, NYPD
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Assistant Chief Drasko Galic, Joint Operations Center:
“By bringing together more than ten representatives from different agencies. We ensure a unified and strategic approach that enables us to handle any possible situation that may arise.”
24. Various, United Nations K-9 squad
STORYLINE:
Deep below the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, where more than 140 world leaders are set to gather for next week’s General Assembly, the people charged with keeping them safe are preparing for what they call a National Special Security Event.

AP Video shot by Joseph B. Frederick

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