NFL team and league facilities are recommended for increased security measures Shooting last month at Manhattan Office Tower A gunman officials say the league was targeting the headquarters.
Memo, which was sent to all teams on Friday, underlined three recommended changes in the security protocol. He will be reviewed at a special league meeting on 26 August.
Memo said, “In such moments, we are reminded that security is not a background task. It is fundamental.”
Increased measures recommended include: Each team and league facility to ensure risk are accurately identified and reduced; Whenever players or staff members are present, the presence of armed officers in team and league facilities; Weapon screening for any person seeking admission to a team or league facility, including the use of the walk-throat magnetometer and X-ray scanner for bags, is similar to the process of getting admission to sports.
Memo said, “The committee believes that these changes will affect day-to-day operations and will require time, coordination and investment of resources.” “However, our players, coaches, employees and our facilities do not have more priority than safety and safety of all those working around it.”
Investigators believe that the 27 -year -old Shane Tamura of Las Vegas was trying to go to NFL offices after shooting several people in the building lobby, then on July 28, another in the 33rd floor office, another, before he kills himself, the officials said.
Police said Tamura had a history of mental illnessAnd a gambling note found on his body suggested that he complained on a claim against NFL that he was the victim. Chronic painful encephalopathyA degenerative brain disease that can be diagnosed only by examining the brain after the death of a person.
Tamura played high school football in California a decade ago but never in NFL.
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Rob Madi, Associated Press