Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 21:12:58 -0500
From: Michael Novick <mnovick-AT-laedu.lalc.k12.ca.us>
Subject: AUT: Armed police create ring of steel in England


Another innovation of the Labor government in England--MN

Armed police create ring of steel
>
>     AN UNPRECEDENTED security operation has taken effect in
>  Brighton. Armed police surrounded the conference centre and main
>  hotels with metal barriers and wire fences drilled into the ground,
>  creating a "secure area".
>  
>     Thousands of delegates, including Cabinet ministers, had to pass
>  through security checks yesterday before they were admitted to the
>  conference. Only four senior members of the Cabinet who are guarded
>  round the clock by armed police escaped the checks.
>  
>     Some of Labour's grandest names had to queue alongside ordinary
>  delegates who had travelled to Brighton from all over Britain. Neil
>  Kinnock, the former Labour leader and now a European commissioner,
>  had to raise his arms as a metal detector was run round his body
>  when he arrived just before lunch. A smart golden fountain pen in
>  his jacket pocket triggered a buzzer in the device.
>  
>     Security has always been tight at the conference of the
>  governing party after IRA terrorists murdered five people at the
>  1984 Tory conference in Brighton when a huge bomb ripped through
>  the Grand Hotel. But this week's operation dwarfed the security at
>  last year's Tory conference in Bournemouth.
>  
>     Labour has opted for a different type of operation from that
>  undertaken for the Conservatives when they were in government. At
>  the Tory conference last year, there was less security outside the
>  conference centre and hotels, which meant that delegates had to be
>  searched every time they entered one of the main buildings. In
>  Brighton, delegates are searched once before the enter the secure
>  area, which means they do not have to be searched as they enter the
>  conference centre or the Grand and Metropole hotels.
>  
>     Every delegate, visitor, journalist and hotel worker has to
>  display a pass with their photograph before they can enter the
>  secure area. To reach the main entrance next to the conference
>  centre on the seafront, delegates have to walk down to the beach
>  and cross back under the road through a tunnel.
>  
>     Group 4 security officers check people's passes three times
>  before they pass through airport-style X-ray machines. Even food
>  for the secure area is X-rayed.
>  
>     Another reason for the tight security is that the logistics of
>  the conference were worked out well before the IRA called its
>  ceasefire in July.
>  
>  (Copyright 1997)
>  
>                      _____via IntellX_____
>  {A4:TimesofLondon-0930.00510}    9/30/97
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