London, July 17(ANI): Security agents from the United States will guard Heathrow and various other airports in the United Kingdom during the London Olympics.
The British Department for Transport has reached an agreement with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration for specialist agents to be work at several UK airports.
These agents will arrive a week before the Olympics, and leave around a week after the end of the Paralympics.
"This is an added security layer that has been done to help boost and aid the American airlines in particular that fly in and out of the likes of Heathrow and other airports," Sky News quoted its Home Affairs correspondent Mark White, as saying.
"Nonetheless it is a very unusual occurrence and is significant," he added.
The move is aimed at helping U.S. carriers in particular, but also UK airlines flying in and out of America.
Athletes have started to arrive in London ahead of the Games, and the agents will not be allowed beyond boarding gates, or onto UK aircraft.
Olympic security is already under scrutiny after thousands of extra soldiers and police officers were drafted in to fill a gap left by private contractor G4S.thletes started to arrive in the UK on Monday, on what was Heathrow Airport's busiest ever day. (ANI)
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