Lockdown 2012: Security at the Olympics

A fact full and condensed summary of the massive expenditure and cock-up's at the London 2012 Olympics.
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Lockdown 2012: Security at the Olympics

For the XXXth Olympiad, which opened last Friday in London, organisers have placed a heavy emphasis on security. One figure that illustrates this emphatic approach to security: for every one athlete competing, there are four security personnel working at the Games (see our visualisation below).

The British Army is providing 17,000 personnel, 70% more than the number of British troops currently deployed in Afghanistan. Some 3,500 of these soldiers were called up at the last moment, bailing out the private security company G4S, undisputed gold medalists in the field of cock-ups.
 
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