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Financial gaps could compromise Olympic security: RCMP documents
07.26.2006
Last Updated: Thursday, July 26, 2007 | 3:10 AM PT
CBC News
Security for the 2010 Olympic Games could be compromised because the cost to police the event has been underestimated, according to RCMP documents obtained by CBC News.
The RCMP, which is co-ordinating the national effort to police the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, is acknowledging for the first time that it will cost more than the original budget of $175 million.
The admission comes after CBC News obtained internal RCMP documents that reveal the force has been struggling for years with that dollar figure.
One internal RCMP document from 2005 says financial gaps pose "risks to games security operations."
The Olympic bid, it says, failed to consider true costs for items such as security checks for thousands of service people, computer software, metal detectors and labour.
The number of venues the RCMP is expected to protect jumped from 21 in the bid to more than 100 after Vancouver won.
"At first blush, numerous financial funding gaps and risks have been identified which will negatively impact security operations," one of the documents states.
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