Read hour-by-hour details on a story about the LAPD Suspicious Activity Reporting program — a model for the rest of the nation’s police departments.

4:44: Grenade found at major LA city intersection. Bomb Squad is in preparation to deactivate it.

4:01: We’re at the LAPD Bomb Squad HQ where a call just came in for help from the California Highway Patrol. Suspicious package on the 101 freeway.  Our camera is en route with a Bomb Squad team to check it out.

2:29: Mission accomplished. Explosive target was detonated by the bomb that the bomb techs built. The explosion was so loud it echoed throughout the Coliseum.

1:19: Watching the LAPD build a bomb in their trainign scenario - you can smell it for as close as we are. The plan is to mount it to a robot that will take it over to the bomb package they found and blow it up.

11:28: Here at the LA Coliseum waiting for a Bomb Squad scenario to begin. We are working on a story about the LAPD SAR (Suspicious Activity Reporting) program that has become a model for the rest of the nation’s police departments.

The program mandates that all cops - even those on the beat- report suspicious activities that could be terror-related while they are on patrol. Suspicious activites include people taking photos of bridges and tunnels for no apparent aesthetic reason, an effort to buy official uniforms, leaving a car on the side of the road intentionally, etc.

The Bomb Squad has agreed to let us observe one of their training exercises during which they would intercept a terror suspect strapped with explosives. But the real fun begins when we return to the Bomb Squad headquarters to wait for a “call.” With about 1000 threats a year called into the LAPD Bomb Squad, it’s likely we’ll get some action.