Around 3,000 police to be deployed for President Obama’s visit

Up to 3,000 police will be deployed in Prague for US President Barack Obama’s Prague visit on April-4-5, Prague police director Martin Červíček announced on Tuesday. Earlier police estimates said that around 2,500 police would be on duty. Mr. Červíček said the scale of the police operation corresponded with that undertaken for the NATO summit in the Czech capital in 2002, which cost around 1.0 billion crowns with two thirds of that spent on security. The first of a series of meetings between Prague City authorities, police and public transport chiefs to make preparations was due to be held on Tuesday.