Security cost for royal wedding goes up
Posted Mar 7, 2011 10:04:02 AM.
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It’s one cost most people don’t factor in to a wedding: security.
But the price tag for policing the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton has risen to $31.7 million because thousands of officers will be able to claim double pay for working on what will be a bank holiday.
That would make it one of the most costly security operations ever staged in Britain.
By comparison, security at the G20 protests in London in 2008 was about $16 million.
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