inescaped inmate and convicted murderer danelo cavalcante. we have thoroughly searched the area around two elementary schools previously contained within the perimeter and have adjusted the perimeter to exclude both schools from the perimeter area. we ve done this in an effort to minimize the impact on students and their families while we continue with our search efforts. the district attorney and i have an ongoing dialogue with school districts in the area and are committed to providing them the most up-to-date information so they can make informed decisions about school operations. i have told you all previously we re utilizing hundreds of state, local, and federal law enforcement officers, can nines, aviationets, and various types of technology in an effort to keep the community safe and bring this to as swift conclusion as possible. i d like to provide the media and public some insight for the scope of the operation we put in place. following the press conference today
just restricting vehicular traffic into the hospital. the inner perimeter is where you see the officers with the heavy weapons. that s a combination of officers from the srg unit they re in possession of the heavy weapons. and as well as the emergency service unit. they re going to be conducting a grid pattern search. they ll start from the bottom floors and they re going to move up. now bear in mind, this is someone that does that s in possession of long gun. those long guns we think about the ammunition that comes from one of those long guns. it has the propensity to penetrate an officer s bullet resistant vest so you ll see a lot of bullet resistant shields that are brought in to the scene of this. you will see a lot of resources that are going to be deployed. in addition to that we have somewhat of a unique situation whereas we have a we have patients, we have hospital staff, et cetera. so a lot of what the police department is going to focus on
know, because it can turn on a dime, and it s good for high resolution work because it can slow down and really focus. towed rays are better if you re looking for a large search area. able to cover between three and six times as much area per day. they re much cheaper to operate. and the key advantage is that they can work in every kind of weather, and provide data in real-time. auv, of course has to be recovered and downloaded and you see the data it recorded yesterday. anthony, how long could this take, this search? we believe now the search area will be narrowed dramatically, simply because the ocean shield, following this grid pattern search, is securing not only the strength of the pings, but also the relative magnetic bearing that they believe the pings are emanating from. the additional magnetic barings