Games Monitor - Security

Where there's a Zil there's a way

Steve Dowding — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:00:12 +0100

July 29 - Special "Games Lanes" will be introduced on key roads to speed athletes and officials to the 2012 London Olympics, plans launched today have shown.

The lanes will be in addition to the Olympic Route Network (ORN) which will be roadwork free, cover 2.5 per cent of London's roads, will be used by 82,000 people and cost around £25 million.

Packed Public Meeting Demands Answers on Olympic Police Base

Steve Dowding — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:42:06 +0100

©William Heron

GamesMonitor Background Papers updated

Steve Dowding — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:27:37 +0100

Updated Background Papers are now available at http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/media_centre

Background Paper 1 - Impact (PDF) 170.23 KB

London 2012: one big party or one big prison?

Mike Wells — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:03:14 +0100

By Mike Wells

Security precautions for London 2012 include the construction of a 17.5 km, 5,000volt electric fence, topped with 900 daylight and night vision surveillance cameras spaced at 50 metre intervals. On first sight of the fence you could be forgiven for thinking you had slipped through a wormhole in the space-time continuum to find yourself on the perimeter of a Soviet era Gulag.

A few lines on Rio and the Olympics

Martin Slavin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:15:13 +0100

Pan American Games. Rio 2007.

Police harassment of critics of Vancouver Olympics is protested

Martin Slavin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:07:33 +0100

London: The Inclusive Olympiad

Martin Slavin — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:58:08 +0100

The security fence © Mike Wells: .
“...the Olympic Park, venues and infrastructure for the London 2012 Games will be the most inclusive and accessible to date.

Going higher on security

Steve Dowding — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:07:41 +0000

"There are still discussions about moving one venue or another,'' Oswald said. "How can you plan your security or your transport if you are not sure where the competition is going to take place?"

New London Olympics site security fencing appears

Charles Batsworth — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:35:51 +0100

The Berlin Wall-style gradual enhancement of the Olympic Park perimeter has advanced again recently.
This could be some sort of trial section or the start of a program of replacement which will continue along the boundary.

Scamming the London Olympics brand

Martin Slavin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:37:13 +0100

BBC London has discovered that hundreds of eastern European workers have been duped by a scam promising non-existent jobs at the Olympic site in east London. Our investigations unit and reporter Katharine Carpenter tracked down a convicted fraudster from east London who ran a scheme promising Slovak workers accommodation on a cruise ship in Docklands and jobs on the site.