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APEC Leaders’ Week Will Occur Under Strict Security Measures

An integrated security network has been created which would include more than 200 video surveillance cameras.

To ensure the normal development of the APEC Leaders Week, The National Police force, the Air Force, the Navy and the Peruvian Army have implemented a Comprehensive Security Plan, which will foresee the safety of the authorities of Member Economies once they are in our country.

The Colonel Alberto Castillo, chief of security of the Extraordinary High-Level Commission-CEAN APEC, said that a security plan has been implemented to begin operating from the moment of the leader’s arrival in Peru until the end of the summit, a fact that will demand an operational deployment of approximately 10 thousand troops of security.

He has also indicated that for the very first time in Peru an integrated security network has been created that would include 200 video cameras in the municipalities of Miraflores, San Isidro, San Borja, as well as the National Police, the same ones that are located in strategic areas to safeguard the passage of the Leaders during their daily routs.

Castillo added that three security rings will be available, the first of which forms the internal premises security, meaning hotels and locations where they will conduct the meetings. The second ring will be located closer to sites already mentioned and the third will be located 600 meters from the headquarters and the hotels that will house the officers and leaders of member economies. This whole guard system is organized in coordination with the Seventh Region Police, which has Transport Canine Police and motorized units at its disposal.

Meanwhile, the Chief Operating Officer of the CEAN APEC 2008, Gonzalo Ansola Cabada, said that the meeting set for the 22nd and 23rd of November, will be held in a special area of the Convention Center of the Ministry of Defense. Representatives of the 21 economies will be able to attend with their respective support groups (a high-level adviser, a physician and a member of security). Thus, the most important APEC will only be composed by 84 people.

During the leaders’Week of the APEC Forum, the official delegations will be accommodated in 71 hotels located in Miraflores, San Isidro, Lima and San Borja, which have a total of 5,580 rooms. Given this, the coordination work of the National Police Force with the hotel industry began early this year through a series of working meetings, which have served to develop security plans for the APEC Leaders' Week.

News source: APEC 2008.org

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