Port Security A Concern As Funds Shrink
by Kate Farrish | Sep 9, 2011 11:00am
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Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks, Bridgeport made its summer marine police unit a year-round effort to protect the port, where oil, coal, bananas and pineapples arrived on ships from Colombia, Costa Rica and Indonesia.
Police officer Ed Martocchio signed up for the harbor patrol, motivated by 9/11. Today, he remains on alert.
“I spend every waking hour and some sleeping hours worrying about them,” Martocchio said of terrorists, dragging his hands down his tanned face while patrolling the harbor by boat one hot August day. “What are they going to do next? Where are they going to do it?”
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