 This crisis center was unveiled in June 1999, and became the subject of tension between the agency and the police department, whose own command center at 1 Police Plaza had until then been the focus of emergency preparedness operations.As the first director of the new crisis center, ""one of Hauer’s first tasks was to find a home for an emergency command center to replace the inadequate facilities at police headquarters,"" according to the Times.The site selected, was immediately controversial because it was part of the World Trade Center complex (although not in one of the Twin Towers), which had already been the location of a truck bomb attack in 1993.