[asia-apec 471] Re: apec-L: NZ/APEC - Police prepare for top security

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Subject: apec-L: NZ/APEC - Police prepare for top security
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Sunday Star-Times 26/4/98

Police prepare for top security
by Simon Jones

International intelligence agencies are meeting with New Zealand
police to identify terrorist risks in the run up to next year's
APEC conference.

Security forces from America have already made visits in
preparation for next September's conference when 22 world leaders,
including US President Bill Clinton, converge on Auckland.

"It will be the biggest police operation ever launched in New
Zealand," said Senior Sergeant Steve Neild, head of Auckland
Airport Police who has been handed the role of looking after the
diplomats.

"We will have the most powerful people in the world here and one
of the biggest problems for us is the sheer size of it.  We have
to be prepared for every eventuality."

Mr Neild denied that police are being trained by agencies such as
the CIA; instead they are working closely with them.

They will want extra assurances because of New Zealand's stance
that foreign security service agents should not carry arms.  The
cots of policing the conference is estimated at [NZ $] $10 million.

Mr Neild has been in charge of airport policing since last
September.  During that time he has dealt with a false threat from
a psychiatric patient claiming to have hijacked a plane, as well
as calling in a bomb squad after discovering a grenade.  However,
it turned out to be an ornament meant as a present.  He said the
main part of airport police work was dealing with illegal
immigrants as well as arresting people smuggling drugs.  There was
a notable rise in people trying to bring in steroids.

Posted by GATT Watchdog, 27/4/98