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20/20 security plans on stream – Top Cop

Mar 26, 2010 News

With the 20/20 Cricket World Cup just over a month away, Police Commissioner Henry Greene has assured that preparations by the local law enforcement agencies are on stream.
Speaking to reporters last Wednesday, Greene said that apart from Guyana, other regional security forces are fine tuning their strategies to ensure that the tournament, which begins on Friday, April 30, in Guyana and concludes Sunday, May 16, in Barbados, is held in the most secure and peaceful atmosphere.
“We’ve had several meetings overseas, there’s a meeting of the ICC 20/20 team to be held in Guyana on April 7. I (recently) attended a meeting in St Lucia, where we did discuss the ICC 20/20 and all the plans that we have for that tournament. There are lots of things that we plan to do,” the Police Commissioner said.
He disclosed that Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee would be engaged in a meeting tomorrow with organisers of the tournament when more security planning will be discussed.
Security for this tournament will be slightly different from what obtained when the region hosted the Cricket World Cup in 2007.
For one, a lot of the restrictions that were in place then have been removed.
“They are allowing quite a lot of things that they were not allowing for that World Cup (2007). So it will be a much more relaxed and sporty sort of arrangement,” Greene said.
“I think that the ICC themselves recognized the structure that didn’t suit our environment when they looked at what happened in 2007 and they by themselves have decided to reduce lots of the stringent measures they implemented then,” the Commissioner explained.

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