Finest big: Always on terror alert

AN NYPD official said Monday that police wake up every morning knowing it could be the day New York City is attacked by terrorists.

“More than any other place in the world, New York remains in the crosshairs of terrorists,” said John Miller, deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism. “We treat every day as if is the day we’ll be attacked.”

Miller made his comments on Staten Island, before a House subcommittee on emergency preparedness.

He noted that while the NYPD has received an average of $150 million in federal funding in each of the last five years, the actual dollar total has fallen each year.

“But our threat picture has not been reduced,” he said.

And, he said, more money is need to beef up security in the nation’s largest subway system.

Funding in previous years was used to buy, among other things, 10,000 surveillance cameras and 3,000 radiation detectors.

Other dollars helped train dogs, at up to $60,000 per animal, to detect explosive particles, and to train cops in how best to respond to active-shooter scenarios.

Miller after testifying told reporters he hopes the subcommittee studies the issue “from a legislative and a funding standpoint.”