There will be nine risky factors including fires and urban harassment in the security maintenance areas of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games said Lu Shimin, head of the security department of the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee, at the sixth closed conference of the International Permanent Observation forum according to a report from the official website of the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee, which is reported by the sportsonline with People.com.cn on May 11 in Beijing.

Lu Shimin says Beijing carried out the initial analysis on the risky factors concerning the security work when applying for hosting the Olympic Games and ascertained the nine risky areas including fire, illegally intruding upon the Olympic Games facilities, urban harassment, crimes, technological risk of the key service system of the Olympic Games, traffic safety, natural calamities, other calamities and terrorist activities as the risky ones of the Beijing Olympic Games security work. Lu Shimin says the department will keep on monitoring and controlling these factors.

There are more than 40,000 professional policemen working in the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. They are divided into the specialized categories respectively in charge of public security, criminal investigation, fire control and traffic. In the security tasks of the international large-scale activities involving the 1990 Asian Games, the 1995 World Women's Conference and the 1999 Fortune Global Forum, the policemen took exercises fully. Lu Shimin adds that Beijing will further strengthen the exchanges with the international community in the field of the security work including the large-scale activities such as the Olympic Games while giving play to its own advantages in order to guarantee the security of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

By People's Daily Online