PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. -- A counterterrorism expert who was once an Israeli police officer is in South Florida this week to train police in antiterrorism and crime-fighting techniques.

Retired Detective Staff Sgt. Major Marc Kahlberg is working with the Pembroke Pines Police Department in a training initiative at Pembroke Lakes Mall. This concept is known as "The Secure Zone." Kahlberg conceptualized the approach that is now a used in Israel and is being implemented on three different continents.

Kahlberg is training Pembroke Pines officers and officers from surrounding agencies. He will also brief local chiefs and command staff personnel on "Managing the Terrorist Threat." Kahlberg will also lecture local business leaders this concept and conduct an in-depth analysis of the Pembroke Pines Secure Zone.

While he was an Israeli police officer assigned to the Netanya District, Kahlberg responded to more than a dozen suicide bombing scenes. He also arrested three terrorists, one of whom was determined to be a suicide bomber who was just hours away from detonating his bomb.

Kahlberg now lectures and teaches methods of counter-terrorism to international police agencies, the U.S. Counter Terrorism Bureau, and U.S. congressmen and their advisers.