GETTY The NYPD will deploy 65 of the vehicles to act as blockers for any possible attack.

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New York Police Department will station 65 of the hulking vehicles – weighing 20 tonnes on their own and loaded with an extra 15 tonnes of sand – at intersections surrounding the iconic celebration in New York due to take place on Saturday evening. The celebration is already a heavily policed event, with 7,000 officers deployed every year, including armed anti-terror units and bomb-sniffing dogs.

But in the wake of the sickening assault in Berlin, which left 12 dead after ISIS jihadi Anis Amri ploughed a truck into a busy Christmas market, NYPD Commissioner James O’Neil said US authorities must be vigilant. He said: “We live in a changing world now. It can’t just be ‘What happens in New York, what happens in the United States?’ It has to be more ‘What happens worldwide?’” New York police studied the atrocities in Berlin, as well as the more deadly assault in Nice that left 86 people dead when a man drove a 20-tonne refrigerated truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day, in order to effectively plan their security.

GETTY The security measures come in response to the attacks in Berlin and Nice this year.

BERLIN TERROR: 'TWELVE' dead as truck crashed into crowd at Christmas market Tue, December 20, 2016 A truck crashed into a Christmas market in Berlin killing at least 12 and injuring 48 Play slideshow REUTERS•AFP 1 of 21 A truck crashed into a Christmas market in Berlin killing at least 12 and injuring 48

The entirety of Las Vegas’ police force will be working or on-call in collaboration with the FBI, the National Guard and the Secret Service, in order to keep the casino city’s extravagant celebration secure. Those seeing in the new year in Manhattan will be banned from carrying umbrellas and large bags, and screened at two points before being allowed access to the event. And, as is the city’s norm, public bins and letterboxes will be removed to reduce possible points of danger.