NEW YORK (CNN) -- The New York City Police Department said Sunday that it will boost security throughout the city if the United States goes to war with Iraq.

The plan, dubbed Operation Atlas, calls for more police officers to patrol the streets and for military aircraft to fly overhead.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has briefed Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the plan, said Michael O'Looney, the mayor's spokesman. Atlas would cost the city more than $5 million per week, police said.

The operation would include heavily armed elite units called Hercules, which have been deployed during the past few months to deter terrorists attacks, and another elite group called Archangel, which was created to fight feared millennium terror threats.

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