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    New Border Patrol trucks equipped to see as far as 10 miles

    New Border Patrol trucks equipped to see as far as 10 miles

    Posted: Jan 16, 2009 05:27 PM EST

    Updated: Jan 16, 2009 09:23 PM EST

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    By Bud Foster - bio | email

    It looks like the computer you have at home but it's far from it. First of all, it costs about $500,000. Secondly, it takes Customs and Border Patrol surveillance into a new era and allows them to see things they've never seen before.

    "It has a 360 degree range of motion. We can see all around us," says Lee Allbee, of the Customs and Border Patrol as he demonstrates how the system works.

    "Radar," says Robert Gilbert, Chief of the Tucson sector describing the difference between this system and all the detection systems of the past.

    For the first time, radar has come to border surveillance. Three years in the making, it's already deployed and already showing results.

    "We deployed one in the Arivaca area, an area where we get large loads of marijuana," says Gilbert. "The minute it went in, large loads went away and we got 13, 14 seizures in a week."

    He says the smugglers stopped trying to bring in the large loads because they were too easily detected but even smaller loads are easily discovered with the new technology.

    Once the radar detects movement, the cameras lock in, day or night.

    "Not only can we tell how many people it is but we can tell what they're carrying," says Allbee.

    If they're carrying a backpack, it's detected. If they're carrying a long rifle, it's detected. If they're carrying a load of drugs, it's detected. If it's a small group or a large group, it's detected.

    It saves on manpower because they no longer waste time sending too many agents to a situation which needs only one or two. On the other hand, they can send a dozen if needed.

    Each radar truck costs about a half million dollars and there are 23 of them in the Tucson sector.

    They sweep an area every ten seconds, can see up to 10 miles into Mexico, make better use of manpower and prevents some of those "oops" moments.

    "Too many times we've had an incursion and we sent a law enforcement response out there to find it's cattle," Gilbert admits.

    But the Mobile Surveillance System, MSS, should end those kinds of mistakes.

    Even with all this technology the border patrols says those border checkpoints 25 miles in are still necessary. These things detect people. The checkpoints are for cars.

    And having a second level of security, they say, is important.

    The CPB has purchased 40 of the MSS units and 23 of them are already deployed in the Tucson sector.

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    The CPB has purchased 40 of the MSS units and 23 of them are already deployed in the Tucson sector.
    President elect Pinnochio and his freind Janet the Planet will take these tools away from the Border Patrol.
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