London On Alert
Homeland Security
Defense Technology International Sep 01 , 2011 , p. 47
Christina Mackenzie
Paris
Michael Dumiak
Berlin
Neelam Mathews
New Delhi
U.K. builds defenses for 2012 London Olympics
Printed headline: Security Blitz
There is less than a year before the curtain rises on the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London (July 27-Aug. 12), which, with the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games (Aug. 29-Sept. 9) also in London, will require Britain’s biggest peacetime security operation. Anna de Vries, senior information officer with London’s Metropolitan Police Service, tells DTI via e-mail that “our plan to deliver a safe and secure games is designed to mitigate against a range of threats. It is kept under review and we retain the capacity to alter our plan in light of the threat or new attack methodology. Planning is being done to a severe level of threat,” which means terrorism is “highly likely.”...