Olympic Security: Massive Security for Vancouver 2010 Games

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The Olympic security for the Vancouver 2010 winter games are of olympic proportions. One way it is being described is picture the security level at airports, and apply them to the venues for the Olympic games.

It is likely one of the largest security operations taking place on Canadian soil. In total it is expected that 15,000 security personnel will be on hand providing security for the games - consider there are around 5,000 athletes and that is a 3 to 1 ratio of security personnel to athletesThe security personnel inlcude: the RCMP who will providing venue security; the Vancouver Police force who will be providing non-venue security; a small army of private security personnel; United States security forces; and 5,000 members of the Canadian Military.

The bill for security for the Vancouver Olympics is massive over, $1 billion and that does not include overtime costs for the Vancouver Police force according to the Georgia Straight Newspaper.

With the Christmas Day bomb scare still fresh security personnel will not be taking any chances and it seems spectators should be prepared for long waits and thorough scrutiny.