100,000 Police officers to secure G7 Summit

YEREVAN, MAY 25, ARMENPRESS. Japan’s Mie prefecture is scheduled tohold the Thursday-Friday G7 summit inthe city ofIse-Shima, reports Sputnik News.

A record-setting 100,000 police officers will maintain security at the G7, Japanese television reported Wednesday.

The summit venue and the airport where world leaders are expected toarrive will be secured bynearly 23,000 police, the NHK broadcaster said.

Another 70,000 law enforcement officials will guard 3,500 major stations, shopping districts, and other so-called soft targets ofless secure sites where people converge, the channel added.

Up to4,500 will be onduty duringUS President Barack Obama’s visit toHiroshima, the city that the United States dropped an atomic bomb onto force Japan’s surrender inWorld War II.

Most ofthe G7 leaders are expected toarrive forthe summit viathe Chubu Centrair International Airport inAichi onWednesday.