ATLANTA (WXIA) -- Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and 28 police chiefs from around north Georgia met in a law enforcement summit in Atlanta Friday, prompted in part by the terror attacks in Paris and elsewhere around the world in recent weeks.
The summit was a closed-door meeting where FBI officials shared the latest information from the coordinated terror attacks in France last week and the additional hotel terror attack on Friday in Mali.
"Clearly, we're dealing with a very smart, very thinking enemy," said Doraville Police Chief John King. "It's a renewed effort to get our guard back up."
"And we understand that it's going to take all of us to get to the end of any kind of attack similar to what we've seen," said Atlanta Police Chief George Turner.
The FBI insisted there are no current specific threats against the US in general or Atlanta in particular.
Their biggest concern is with those already here who may be inspired or emboldened by what they are seeing abroad.
"We definitely have subjects in Georgia that we're concerned about," said FBI Special Agent In Charge Britt Johnson. "And the ones that we work very hard to make sure that we interfere before they can do anything."
Many venues around metro Atlanta have increased security in response to a higher level of alert across the nation, given what has happened abroad.
