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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