Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response team

[1] TSA OLE/FAMS shares responsibility for the program with the Office of Security Operations and Transportation Sector Network Management.

[3][4][5][6][7] They also can deploy to deal with CBRNE/WMD (chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear, and explosive weapons of mass destruction).

[14][15] In July 2007 VIPR teams carried out controversial operations in several cities for the holiday weekend (see below).

Here are a few definitions given by various sources, most of them government officials: Augmentation Presence and detection Terrorism and emergencies Miscellaneous Personnel may include the following: Special tools may include FY2009: $30 million, 10 VIPR teams[34] FY2010: increase of $50 million, for 15 surface transport VIPR teams[35] FY2012: $109 million[36] In 2007 some Indianapolis bus passengers complained to representative Dan Burton that TSA searches violated their unalienable rights.

Burton replied that Al Qaeda was interested in attacking buses and that the "War on Terrorism" was still ongoing.

It noted progress, but said those issues were "undermining agency efforts to advance mass transit security".

"[14] This report focused on the role of Surface Transportation Security Inspectors on VIPR teams.

[1] The U.S. Congress House Appropriations Committee wrote a report in September 2009 regarding the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

[38] In early 2011, a TSA VIPR detained and patted down people at an Amtrak station in Savannah, Georgia.