Some 26,000 men to make up security scheme for Olympics
Meeting on security during the Games, attended by representatives from the Executive branch and the Armed Forces.
One month away from the beginning of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the security scheme designed for the sporting event is expected to engage 5 thousand men from the National Public Security Force, and some 21 men from the Armed Forces. The new estimate was announced today (Jul 5), after a meeting on security during the Games, attended by representatives from the Executive branch and the Armed Forces.
The number of military from the National Security Force is below the 9.6 thousand men previously announced to take part in the security plan. According to National Secretariat for Public Security head Celo Perioli, the amount of military recruited was adjusted in a bid to prevent the scheme from being jeopardized.
Eliseu Padilha, the president's chief of staff, said that the Armed Forces would be capable of covering any shortage in the National Force.
iral Ademir Sobrinho, head of the t Staff of the Armed Forces, noted that 18 thousand of his men had been estimated to be deployed, but the amount was expanded, by request of Rio's state government, to approximately 21 thousand.
Padilha also declared that the meetings for planning and monitoring in the Olympics will now be held weekly.
Translated by Fabrício Ferreira
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