Blog posts sensitive NYPD documents found in trash

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Source: AP

NEW YORK (AP) -- A blogger who said he found a set of sensitive police documents in a trash can outside a police station near Times Square posted them online Friday.

The documents, titled "Cobra Task Force Deployments" and stamped "law enforcement sensitive," detail the deployment of 20 police officers.

COBRA, which stands for chemical ordinance, biological and radiological awareness, is a federally funded program that uses classroom instruction and drills to teach patrol officers how to recognize and respond to terrorist threats. There was a session at the Manhattan South Task Force station house on Wednesday.

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