Didn’t the Nazis do this? This is some crazy shit!

They don’t carry guns, flash badges or conduct investigations.

But store supervisors, hotel general managers and farming executives in Palm Beach County soon will be part of a new campaign to prevent terrorist attacks.

Businesspeople this spring will begin forming a nine-member council to learn techniques on spotting plots in the making, and then pass that information on to potentially thousands of workers in their fields. The council members also will receive sensitive police information concerning threats to their industries.

Before long, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office hopes everyone from utility workers to phone operators to truck drivers will be alert to signs that something may be amiss as they drive through neighborhoods, crisscross malls, visit office buildings and pass major traffic intersections.

“We can’t do it alone,” said Maj. Daniel McBride, commander of the Sheriff’s Office homeland security bureau, which devised the initiative. “We have a gap in homeland security.”

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