USA - TIPSTER PROGRAM TO START IN AUGUST (JUL 16/SYDNEY)
Date: 07/16/2002
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD -- A Bush administration plan will use one in 24 Americans in major urban areas as anti-terrorist informants, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
The program, called the Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS), will recruit people working as letter carriers, utility workers, cab drivers, truckers and train conductors to report suspicious activity.
Operation TIPS, a project of the U.S. Department of Justice, will begin next month as a pilot program in 10 of the largest cities.
According to the U.S. government website, www.citizencorps.gov, "Operation TIPS, involving 1 million workers in the pilot stage, will be a national reporting system that allows these workers, whose routines make them well-positioned to recognize unusual events, to report suspicious activity." |
