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After Paris attacks, NYPD expanding 'active shooter' training, counterterror operations

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FILE - In this Thursday, July 28, 2011 file photo, police officers look at computer monitors in the operations center of the Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center in New York. When news came of a terror attack in Paris in early January, the New York Police Department went on high alert. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (The Associated Press)

New York City police officers stand guard outside the Armed Forces recruitment center in New York's Times Square, Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. In the wake of the Paris terror attacks in early January, New York's Police Department is quietly expanding training for what it sees as the latest terror threat — teams of "active shooters" who arm themselves with high-powered rifles and open fire. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (The Associated Press)

New York City police officers stand guard outside the building that houses Rupert Murdoch's News Corp headquarters in Midtown Manhattan on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. In the wake of the Paris terror attacks in early January, New York's Police Department is quietly expanding training for what it sees as the latest terror threat — teams of "active shooters" who arm themselves with high-powered rifles and open fire. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (The Associated Press)

In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, New York's Police Department is quietly expanding training for "active shooter" situations in which terrorists arm themselves with high-powered rifles and open fire.

Commissioner William Bratton says the new training for the nation's largest police force is based in part on lessons brought back from an NYPD team that was sent to Paris and given widespread access to the scene of the shootings.

Bratton says every police officer will be given information to carry in their memo books on how to deal with active shooters.

And he says more officers will be trained like the NYPD's elite Emergency Services Unit, which responds to the most dangerous situations, from shootings to terror attacks.