London, Oct 6(ANI): A leading police chief has predicted that policing the 2012 London Olympic Games will be tougher than maintaining law and order during the UK riots.
About 16,000 police personnel were deployed to quell the riots, which is same as the total police staff set to lose their jobs as part of the UK Government's cuts in public spending.
Dyfed Powys Police Chief Ian Arundale said the Games could pose logistical problems, if police officers from other regions were transferred to London on duty, the Daily Star reports.
"Effectively, 16,000 police officers were deployed during the riots. That's exactly the same number of police officers estimated we are going to lose in England and Wales," he said.
"Next year with the Olympics, we will get similar challenges. It will be far more difficult to manage next year than it was this summer because the great bulk of officers are leaving between now and the end of the comprehensive spending review," he added.
"We have to be operationally resilient within the resource base that we've got. It's a fairly impossible conundrum. I wouldn't say we won't be able to it but it will be significantly more difficult," he further said. (ANI)
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