Security at Games

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33033, 28 September 1972, Page 18

Security at Games

Security at the Ham village during the 1974 Commonwealth Games would have to be studied carefully, said the chairman (Mr R. S. Scott) at a meeting last evening of the Games Organising Committee. Mr Scott said that unauthorised people getting into the village was a problem that the committee could not assume it would be free from. “Security at the village is vitally important and the need for every precaution to be taken to ensure it is greater now than it has ever been before,” he said. Mr Scott said there would be discussions between the various committees involved in the life of the village and with the police and other security agencies. The topic was raised after a report on his visit to the Munich Olympics by the secretary (Mr A. W. Barrett). Mr Barrett referred to the ease with which unauthorised persons had been able to get into the Munich village and said that he had got into it seven times when, in fact, he had no right to be there. Mr Scott explained that while the Ham village would be fenced he was personally not in favour of barbed wire being put around the women’s quarters. “We do not want to create a village within a village,” he said.