US anti-terror training abroad includes K-9, cybersecurity

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  • Brig. Rami al-Dabbas, the head of Jordan’s Command and Control Center, explains the operations of the national 911 emergency call center, which receives thousands of calls a day, in Amman, Jordan. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
  • A dispatcher using sign language communicates with a hearing-impaired caller at Jordan’s 911 emergency call center in the capital of Amman on March 20, 2018. The caller complained about what he said were undeserved traffic tickets. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
  • A U.S. expert training Jordanian dog handlers holds up a bag with C-4 plastic explosives that had been hidden in a suitcase as part of a drill for the K-9 unit of Jordan’s domestic security service. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
  • A handler from the K-9 unit of Jordan’s police directs an explosives-sniffing German shepherd during a drill in which C4 plastic explosives were hidden in a suitcase meant to simulate airport luggage checks, in Amman Jordan, on March 19, 2018. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
  • Call-takers and dispatchers are seen at Jordan’s 911 emergency call center in the capital of Amman, which receives thousands of calls a day. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
  • A dispatcher monitors street surveillance cameras at Jordan’s 911 emergency call center, in Amman, Jordan. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
  • Jordanian crime scene technicians dust for fingerprints as part of a drill held at the nation’s Forensic Science Laboratory, in Amman, Jordan, on March 19, 2018. The lab is part of an upgrade of Jordan’s fight against suspected militants and criminals. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
  • A 3-year-old German shepherd trained in the United States sniffs for explosives in a drill at the K-9 compound of the Jordanian police, in Amman, Jordan. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
  • The U.S.-funded operation is part of a broader program of upgrading Jordan’s domestic law enforcement efforts by the U.S. State Department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
  • A technician examines a bullet fragment taken from the scene of a shooting in a drill staged at Jordan’s Forensic Science Laboratory, in Amman, Jordan, on March 19, 2018. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
  • Two dogs from the K-9 unit of Jordan’s police look through the bars of their kennels March 19, 2018. The U.S. State Department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program has trained 39 dog-handler teams and embedded two mentors with the program in Jordan. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
  • A dispatcher takes down information from a caller at Jordan’s 911 emergency call center in Amman, Jordan, on March 20, 2018. (Raad Adayleh/AP)