The Department of Transport has hammered a deal with the US Transportation Security Authority to use US security officers at several British airports from one week before the Olympics to one week after the Paralympics end, the Sky News reported.
The British Home Office is under huge pressure to fill in the gap created by G4S’s failure to supply 13,700 forces for Olympics security.
The Home Office has already asked the army and the police to provide it with more forces for the Olympics security after G4S announced it has only 4,000 staff available for the Games.
The British army is now deploying almost one fifth of its total strength to the Olympics while 9 out of 12 police forces will be watching the Games.
However, the security black hole has forced the government to even bring in security staff from the US to secure the Games.
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