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Joint Terrorism Task Forces are based in 104 cities nationwide , including at least one in each of the FBI ' s 56 field offices .
It is critical for police agencies to use existing federal ,
regional , state , local , and tribal
coun- terterrorism organizations and resources in their
efforts to subvert
ter- rorism locally
. For instance
, over
100 Joint
Terrorism Task
Forc- es , some
80 regional and state fusion centers , multiple drug and other specialized task forces , as well as anti-money laundering and counter-terror finance groups should be engaged as relevant
.
Likewise , the use of
classified and non-classified
intelligence databases along with
submission to and accessing nation- al suspicious activity reports
( SARs ) and suspicious transac- tion reports ( via the
Department of Treasury ’ s Financial
Crimes
Enforcement Network ) are utile instruments .
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