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Four-tiered security team to make Games safe
By Guan Xiaomeng (Chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2007-06-06 18:34
A four-tiered professional security team will be formed to guarantee a safe Olympics and 20,000 people will be organized to help ease the traffic during the Games, according to officials at a press conference by The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) on Wednesday.
Liu Xiaoming, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Committee of Communication answers the question from chinadaily.com.cn during the press conference by BOCOG in Beijing June 6, 2007, Wednesday. [BOCOG] |
"The 20,000 people will work directly for the Games, responsible for traffic operation and administration," explained Liu Xiaoming, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Committee of Communication, at the official-heavy conference where 18 of them briefed the media on their jobs for the Games.
"And right now we have as many as 250,000 staff working on the city's daily traffic operation, which is an essential part of our work," Liu said when asked by Chinadaily.com.cn as to how these staff are trained. "We have different training plans for the two groups of staff," Liu said.
The city now has 3 million registered vehicles, exerting pressure on the city's already grid-locked traffic. But the deputy director denied several times of any kind of restrictions on the number of private cars on Beijing's roads.
"We will guide people to properly use private vehicles, and improve the public transport system simultaneously," Liu told Chinadaily.com.cn.
To guarantee a safe Olympic Games, the city's security bureau will establish four-tiers of professional teams in public security, each led by highly-skilled personnel.
"We will assess how the personnel are doing on a yearly basis to pick the most talented people and eliminate unqualified ones," said Shan Zhigang, Party Committee member of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Shan added they sent over 400 police university students abroad for their masters degrees and had several exchange programs with international police groups over the past years, in response to questions as to whether they would recruit foreign security staff.
When asked about the security team receiving any anti-terrorism training, Shan did not comment.
Xu Zhijun, deputy director of Human Resources Department, BOCOG said the Olympic Organizing Committee currently has 1,800 staff all with university degrees and 30 foreign experts. "We will also appreciate the volunteers' jobs for the Games and I believe the Olympic volunteering experience will help them a lot in their future careers," Xu said.
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