London 2012 blog

I'm part of an on-site policing team of five officers and we're lucky to have a unique job in the Metropolitan Police - providing policing support to the huge construction site of the Olympic Park, Olympic Village and surrounding developments. Everything about it is new territory for us - from the equipment we need, to the training, specialist skills and construction industry knowledge.

Our days are always different - it's fascinating to watch the site changing from one day to the next and the speed of delivery that's happening before our eyes.

I'm usually called in circumstances that you wouldn't find in every day policing. Just recently we were called to the Aquatics Centre site because the contractors found rusty firearms in a bag while widening and improving the Waterworks River.

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With only four years to go until the London 2012 Opening Ceremony, these latest photos of the Olympic Park show progress ahead of schedule.

This photo of the Olympic Stadium site shows the clear outline of where the Stadium will be and the distinctive lower bowl taking shape. Construction started in May, three months early:

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The first 'Meeting of Minds' took place on 20 June. Eight businesses drawn from diverse sectors came to London 2012 headquarters to meet up with one of our tier one contractors. It was a very informal occasion designed to offer small businesses an opportunity to come and talk with London 2012 and a main contractor to better understand what it takes to do business with us. We were joined on this occasion by Jackie Connolly from the London Borough of Newham and Hemant Mistry from the London Development Agency (LDA) programme 'Diversity Works for London'.

Each business took five minutes to explain who they were and what their aspirations for participating in the London 2012 supply chain were. These were many and varied, from a wish to become involved in discussions over which tiles to use in the Aquatics Centre to how to sell ice cream to construction workers.

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