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How We Catch the Bad Guys: AMOC Personnel to Speak

By Patricia Korzec, Community Writer
July 23, 2014 at 12:57pm. Views: 93

This Saturday, July 26 at 1 p.m., March Field Air Museum will present a one hour talk by personnel from the Air and Marine Operations Center (AMOC) of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service. Located at March Air Reserve Base it is the nation’s only federal law enforcement center tasked to coordinate interdiction operations in the western hemisphere. This coordination includes the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the governments of Mexico, Canada and the Bahamas. It was established in 1988 as a state of the art Law Enforcement Domain Awareness Center to counter the airborne drug smuggling threat. AMOC utilizes sophisticated technology to detect, identify, track and direct the interdiction of suspect aviation and maritime targets. Its command and control systems provide a single display that is capable of tracking over 50,000 individual targets. “Very few local residents are aware that this important aspect of homeland security is taking place right in our own backyard." said Museum Director Patricia Korzec. "I hope the public will be intrigued enough to find out more about what these local agents do on a daily basis. I have been to the site and it is incredibly impressive to see the technology that is being utilized in catching the bad guys."

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