The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) early estimate of a need for 10, 000 security guards has now jumped to 23, 700.

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London has spent seven years planning to hold the Games and a spokesman from the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) told CNN last week that every eventuality had been accounted for.

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