But the checkpoints that proliferate on the main roads are less reassuring.
In addition to the arrests of Fatah members, Hamas policemen set up checkpoints on major roads and searched cars.
Planning - Define a strategy to develop and deliver a project plan, calculate overall and detailed sizing, define a work schedule, and establish milestones for major checkpoints.
Unlike Houla, where the aftermath was seen by UN observers, a UN team trying to reach the site of the massacre were turned back by Syrian regime checkpoints and targeted with gunfire.
people have been arrested at checkpoints for carrying medical supplies.
At its eight checkpoints, zealous secret police and UN peacekeepers' white jeeps stand by.
Most are left at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints and turned over to the airport, says McCarran spokeswoman Candice Seeley.
Heroic measures were taken, including a search and vaccination of the town and of everyone entering or leaving town at any one of four checkpoints.
Police and military forces are on high alert in Kandahar, with extra roadblocks and checkpoints in place to try and capture any other individuals who may have had a role in the assassination.
Users can select significant versions among continuously created checkpoints, and can change them into snapshots which will be preserved until they are changed back to checkpoints.
Visitors are required to present their baggage for checks at the red and Green Channels operational at all entry checkpoints.
The bulk of the "blue-white" file consists of a relentless catalogue of civilian shootings on nearly 100 occasions by jumpy troops at checkpoints, near bases or on convoys.
Except for key checkpoints, the streets were empty.
Ron Madrid, an expert on non-lethal warfare, says that a new laser-warning system has proved particularly effective in reducing casualties at checkpoints in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Police often put up checkpoints on the roads during elections and search cars, looking for bundles of cash that have no identifying papers (like bank documents or store receipts).
Sometimes it is about getting lorries up roads or across checkpoints, getting cement and equipment in.
Residents were shot at checkpoints and by snipers, they said.
An OTMPS is essentially a workflow application which takes an order through different checkpoints, interacts with manufacturing applications, and finally sends a BOM to the manufacturing plant.
This week, in driving sleet, the first force on the ground, 183 men deployed in the picturesque district of Jalrez, were occupying a series of checkpoints.
Involvement of these three critical groups best happens in two venues: at formal checkpoints that correspond to the end of each phase in the process, and at frequent, informal working meetings where new ideas are explored, evaluated, and elaborated on.
Within hours, thousands of East Berliners began lining up at checkpoints near the Wall.
But many of the checkpoints choking movement and trade in the Palestinian territory have been removed.