15 Oct 2009

G-20 Summit Helped Pittsburgh Get Police Funding and New Equipment

Pittsburgh (USA) police say they will continue to benefit from the millions of dollars spent to prepare for the Group of 20 summit.

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“We spent months getting ready for this and it was a lot of preparation, but we’ll see the dividends of that for a long time to come,” Public Safety Director Michael Huss said. “It was invaluable to us.”

Huss said the summit forced the city to upgrade equipment and undergo hundreds of hours of civil disturbance training from the Department of Homeland Security.

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