New York City subway users will get passing through high-tech weapons detection to  enter the transport system by the start of the summer, according to Mayor Eric Adams ‘ announcement on Thursday.
Adams made the announcement at the Fulton St. train station in lower Manhattan at the start of a 90-day consultation time to ask questions and develop a strategy to integrate weapon monitoring technology into the transit program.
Adams called his statement” the next step in our continuing efforts to , keep harmful weapons , out of our travel system”.
According to Adams, the area will expand its Subway Co-Response Outreach Teams, a pilot programme where health professionals can assist people who need treatment for severe mental illnesses, while also expanding its support to commuters who are mentally ill, Adams said.
To promote their strategy, the NYPD and Adams showed how goods from one of the weapon monitoring companies, Evolv, works. A three-second test will show whether a passenger has a firearm on them after they have entered the scanner.
Officers are only allowed to search the area the system highlighted, authorities said.
If a better company emerges in the next 90 days, Adams and his team claim they wo n’t be constrained by using Evolv.
Evolv’s technology , has been criticized , for picking up various things besides firearms, like tarps. Some participants in the business also , donated a combined$ 1 million  , to Adams gubernatorial campaign.
Without any weapon monitoring systems, the NYPD has previously collected 21 weapons from straphangers as they damp down an , boost in shootings , and assault on the rails.
Earlier this year, the Police assigned 800 more soldiers to the train system to , crack down on suffer evasion , and lower violence in the program.
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