{"id":1102,"date":"2013-09-09T20:29:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:24:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:24:47","slug":"olympic-torch-relay-northern-ireland-costs-police-muckraker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/olympic-torch-relay-northern-ireland-costs-police-muckraker\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u00a31m cost of policing the Northern Ireland Olympic torch relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Help Me Investigate contributor <strong>GM<\/strong> has written for Northern Ireland investigative site The Muckraker on <a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker.me\/2013\/09\/08\/revealed-the-1m-cost-of-policing-the-northern-ireland-olympic-torch-relay-revealed-the-1m-cost-of-policing-the-northern-ireland-olympic-torch-relay-revealed-the-1m-cost-of-policing-the-northern-ire\/\">the costs of policing the Olympic Torch Relay in the region<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She writes:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The final bill for taxpayers came to \u00a31,029,749 \u2013 \u00a3205,950 for every day the torch spent in the region, according to information revealed by Freedom of Information requests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In comparison London\u2019s Metropolitan Police Service spent less than \u00a3150,000 for every day the torch spent in the capital. The Service covers a population more than six times larger than Northern Ireland\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Debra Whyte, media centre manager for the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said: \u201cThe additional costs were due to the Olympic Torch Relay falling over two public holidays in Northern Ireland, and covering a larger geographical area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police in Wales, however, covering an area a third larger than Northern Ireland, also spent less.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help Me Investigate contributor GM has written for Northern Ireland investigative site The Muckraker on the costs of policing the Olympic Torch Relay in the region. She writes: &#8220;The final bill for taxpayers came to \u00a31,029,749 \u2013 \u00a3205,950 for every &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/olympic-torch-relay-northern-ireland-costs-police-muckraker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[459,786,143,784,788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}