Louise Ridley
Body and bag scanners will screen visitors at London Live events during the Olympics, in airport-style safety checks that organisers say could take up to an hour.
The tight security will be in place at the Hyde Park and Victoria Park sites which will broadcast Olympic Games coverage on big screens and hold music and sport events from 27 July to 12 August.
John Probyn, chief operating officer for London Live’s promoter Live Nation, said: „The security services will search the sites a couple of days before we open and then we have to vouch for every person, item and every piece of equipment from that point on, so it effectively becomes a sealed site.“
Probyn said he hoped security checks would take less than one hour for visitors to pass through. (more on eventmagazine.co.uk)
