London Torch Security Cost £750,000
“…Security for the London stage of the Olympic torch relay cost almost £750,000, a Metropolitan police briefing paper has revealed. The document also showed that the participation of a Chinese security team had been agreed in advance, despite the mayor, Ken Livingstone, insisting he had no knowledge of their involvement…”
By Allegra Stratton and agencies
Source: Guardian
Security for the London stage of the Olympic torch relay cost almost £750,000, a Metropolitan police briefing paper has revealed.
The document also showed that the participation of a Chinese security team had been agreed in advance, despite the mayor, Ken Livingstone, insisting he had no knowledge of their involvement.
The London leg of the torch relay was chaotic, with security guards battling human rights protesters as they attempted to extinguish the flame.
The Met said officers had taken “appropriate and proportionate action” when “people attempted to breach the safety, security and safe passage of the torchbearer and convoy”.
Television footage showed officers barging some protesters out of the path of the torch, while other demonstrators who attempted to rush towards it were bundled over and pinned to the ground.
At least 4,000 demonstrators, including members of the Free Tibet movement, took part in the protests.
The chairman of the London Olympic Committee, Lord Coe, and Livingstone were among those who criticised the conduct of the Chinese guards.
However, the briefing paper said the Chinese flame security team had been part of a legal agreement between the Greater London Authority (GLA) and the Beijing organising committee of the Olympic games, drawn up last year.
The Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate, Brian Paddick, said the report, distributed to members of the Metropolitan police authority, made it clear Livingstone had known about the guards before the event.
He quoted Livingstone’s remarks in a BBC London hustings, broadcast on April 15, when the mayor said: “We did not organise that.
“We did not know beforehand these thugs were from the security services. Had I known so, we would have said no.”
Paddick said: “The MPA report makes it quite clear, in direct contradiction to what Livingstone has told us, that the Chinese security guards were part of the legal contract between the GLA and the Chinese authorities.
“For the Mayor to say he knew nothing about it - and would not have allowed it - is simply not true.”
The MPA said the Chinese team had no executive powers and was not armed, “though, like all of us, under common law they are entitled to protect themselves and their property if threatened”.
Chinese embassy staff were briefed that the flame security team should turn and face the torch if it came under attack, using their bodies to provide a physical barrier.
The legal agreement said police should “provide for the safe and uninhibited passage of the relay convoy in cooperation with the (Chinese) security and safety team” and “liaise with the (Chinese) relay security and safety team on any known or perceived security threats to the relay”.
The cost of the policing operation, which came from MPA funds because it was a community event, was £746,000.
The operation involved 1,963 police officer shifts.
Of 37 arrests made, 29 were for breaching the peace, seven for public order offences and one for handling stolen goods, the document revealed.
The Met said the GLA had taken overall responsibility for the event, although police were in charge of security for the torch convoy and spectators.
Planning for the relay, which saw the Olympic flame carried along a 31-mile route through 10 London boroughs, took more than a year.
Police “made it clear” that constant changes to the route in the weeks leading up to the relay were creating “vulnerabilities”.
The report added that no plans had been recommended or approved to hand over security of London’s 2012 Olympics to other countries.
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