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Published on Monday, April 02, 2007

“School bus drivers learn to fight terrorism”

By Sarah A. Reid
Staff writer

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “CAMERON — Pam Brown has closed her school bus doors in the face of a drunk trying to hitch a ride. She has kicked off two high school students using her bus as a place to skip school.

If a terrorist tried to board her bus, she said, she’d “run him over.”

That’s not exactly standard procedure for Moore County schools, but training school bus drivers in how to avoid a terrorist takeover is.

In February, more than 100 bus drivers took part in School Bus Watch, an anti-terrorism training program supported by national transportation organizations and the Department of Homeland Security.

The two-hour course teaches bus drivers how to identify suspicious people, packages and circumstances that could lead to a terrorist takeover or another criminal act.

Drivers who complete the course are issued a special identification number they can use to report incidents to the Highway Watch Call Center, a national call center that analyzes threats.”