Hartford bomb threat never relayed to airport MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) =97 The city is changing its policies regarding=20 terrorism threats after a dispatcher did not report a call about a bomb=20 threat at Bradley International Airport. The dispatcher received a call=20 Saturday night from an elderly woman who said someone had threatened to=20 bomb her plane on Sunday, The Middletown Press and The Hartford Courant=20 reported in Wednesday's editions. Though the dispatcher, Joe Monarca,=20 repeatedly offered to send an officer to the woman's home, the caller=20 refused. And Monarca never relayed the information to officials at the=20 Windsor Locks airport. When the woman told airport authorities about the=20 threat on Sunday, officials grounded the Iowa-bound plane for 30 minutes,=20 the paper reported. Middletown Mayor Domenique Thornton said the FBI had=20 determined there was no terrorist threat relating to the call, although a=20 spokesperson for the FBI was unavailable to confirm if the threat had been= =20 dismissed or was still under investigation. The FBI is reviewing the woman's initial 911 call, which was fielded by the= =20 city's central communication's department =97 an independent unit serving=20 police, fire and emergency medical response units. Because of the incident,= =20 however, the city has changed its policies regarding terrorist threats,=20 officials said. Dispatchers are to take all terrorist-like activity=20 seriously, and police will be dispatched to investigate all terrorism=20 threats. The new procedures went into effect Monday, officials said.=20 Officials said Monarca will face no disciplinary action. Several city=20 officials said the 911 call was handled properly. "We didn't have a=20 protocol in place for what to do in case of an Anthrax threat until we got= =20 our first call about suspicious white substance," said James Milardo,=20 director of Middletown's communications center. "Times have changed. There= =20 are different situations and threats we have to learn to respond to." *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Mas Site: www.tntisland.com/tntrecords/mas2003/ Site of the Week: http://www.caribbeanfloral.com TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************