New York welcomes inner defense. While trying to rebuild the whole neighborhood surrounding the World Trade Center fieldwork, the New York municipal authorities are getting ready for the possibility of terrorist attacks.

This asks for concrete procedures: the New York Police Department is devising an electronic mechanism meant to control the traffic of all vehicles entering the Twin Towers groundwork.

The cameras will be installed at all the entry points to the island and will be doubled up by radiological scanners that will be measuring the radioactivity of each of the cars that will pass through the areas. All these data will be sent to a command center in Lower Manhattan.

The municipality hopes that the system will be in place and working by 2010. The main difficulties that might exist relate to the fact that some of the technology used is still a work in progress so the approximate date at which the system will be able to work as planned depends on how fast these technologies will become ready for use.

A similar surveillance system already exists in London, where almost every corner of every street is filmed by a camera. This allows rapid police intervention wherever a dangerous situation occurs.

City officials said that the new system is supposed to protect the financial area of the city. According to the New York Times, Paul J. Browne, a spokesman for the project, said that no matter what administration will come in 2009, “The importance of protecting the nation’s financial center will remain. And the ability to protect an urban center from a dirty bomb or a nuclear device will also remain.”