Zones to risk

In general line the situation of the inside safety of the United States introduces, following the terrorist acts of September 11 th 2001, increased potential risks but for now indefinite of new attacks.
The American Authorities have announced in various occasions to have adopted or to be in procinto to adopt an ample range of preventive measures, from the controls of the frontiers to the safety of the airports and the harbors, from the prevention of attacks with half chemists and bacteriological, to the protection of nuclear plants, civil infrastructures etc.
To such respect they bring here him following the following sites web to be able to consult:
www.bt.cdc.gov official site of the Centre for Disease Control, the federal corporate body that has the assignment of monitorare the to spread of infectious illnesses and to adopt the necessary measures to prevent her and to eliminate her;
www.usps.com official site of the federal postal service, for recommendations around the treatment of the mail and the measures to be adopted in the case of letters or suspicious packets;
www.faa.gov official site of the Federal Aviation Administration, that contains useful recommendations for the one who has to effect trips in airplane (you see particularly www.faa.gov/apa/updte.htm. to the voice " tips for travellers")
In this picture a plan of vaccinations reenters against the smallpox of physician-sanitary personnel, but not, at the present moment, of the civil population.
Any specific measure of civil defense has been recommended for now to the citizens and the residents and foreign visitors.
In every case all those people who intend to approach in visit in the United States, especially in the great metropolises, they will have to keep in mind this situation of increased potential although indefinite risks.
Intensifies him safety controls you/they can behave besides times longer and greater practical difficulties in the airport operations (check-in, passage to the metal detector etc.), as well as for the access to museums, to public buildings etc. You suggests therefore to reach in the airport with wide advance the time of departure.

You informs that a notice has been inserted on the site web of the embassy of Italy to Washington to the address: http://www.italyemb.org/MisurediPrevenzione.htm
concernente measures of prevention and preparation in case of consequential emergencies from possible terrorist attacks, following the recent decision of the federal Authorities to raise the profile of risk of possible terrorist attacks on American territory or against American objectives to the foreign countries, for a suitable information to the resident fellow countrymen or in transit.
Analogous notices will be besides consultabili on the sites web of our present consulates on the territory USA.

Zones of caution

Particular caution is needed, above all during the evening and nighttime hours, in some non sure zones, normally situated inside the great urban centers. To keep in mind to the respect that the working and social life of the Americans finishes before in Italy, that the centers of the cities are often voided already beginning from the 18.00-19.00 of the afternoon and that it is able not to be easy from that moment to find suitable means of transport.

Normative, uses and local customs

And' foreseen the arrest for overcoming of the limits of speed allowed, normally rather inferior to those expectations in Italy.

And' considered with particular severity the hypothesis of motorists that you/they drive having assumed a quantity of alcoholic over the allowed limit.

To conform disciplinatamente to the instructions imparted by the police in case of lock (for instance: don't go out of the vehicle; to hold the hands on the steering wheel; to show the in demand documents, etc.).

The detention of amazing substances, discoveries to the frontier or during inside controls, can involve strong detentive and monetary punishments..

You remembers that in the most greater part of the American states it is in vigor, for particularly serious crimes, the death penalty.

from the site http://www.viaggiaresicuri.mae.aci.it