War Zone: UK Military Deploys 13,500 Soldiers, Surface To Air Missles In Parks And On Top Of Residences, Painful Sonic Device With 3km Range, Helicopters, And Fighter Jets For Olympic Games In London

LONDON, UK – Britain’s military will be armed with a sonic device that can be used as a high-volume loudspeaker or a non-lethal weapon to disperse crowds at this summer’s Olympic Games in London, the defence ministry said on Friday.

The equipment, which can project a piercing sound over hundreds of metres causing physical pain, has been used during protests at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh in 2009 and against pirates operating off the Somali coast.

The Ministry of Defence said it expected to use it primarily in loudspeaker mode to communicate with boats it wants to stop on the River Thames.

Defence chiefs have already caused controversy by announcing plans to put surface-to-air missiles on the top of residential buildings near the Olympics site in east London.

Fighter jets roared over the capital and helicopters were seen hovering over the Houses of Parliament this month during a nine-day military exercise to prepare for Britain’s biggest peacetime security operation.

The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device), made by U.S. company LRAD Corporation, can be mounted on the side of a ship or on the top of a vehicle. Some versions are roughly the same size and shape as a dustbin lid.

It can generate noises up to around 150 decibels, similar to a gunshot, and has a maximum range of 3 km or 1.8 miles.

The device can also emit a warning alarm that sounds like a police siren and “potentially prevents the use of harmful or deadly force”, LRAD says on its website.

Police and military planners say they are preparing for a range of security threats at the Olympics including protesters trying to disrupt events and attacks using hijacked airliners.

Around 13,500 soldiers will help the police during the Games, which run from July 27 to Aug. 12.

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London UK Police Targeting Whores And Whorehouses Ahead Of 2012 Olympics

LONDON, UK – Prostitutes are being “cleaned off the streets” and brothels shut down to make London more presentable in time for the Olympics, it is claimed.

Anti-poverty charity Toynbee Hall says the number of hookers arrested in the Olympic borough of Tower Hamlets this year has already exceeded the tally for all of 2011.

The group says 80 brothels have also been shut down in the five Olympic boroughs — Newham, Tower Hamlets, Greenwich, Hackney and Waltham Forest — in the past year.

This compares to just 29 in all of London’s 32 other boroughs.

Andrew Boff, a London Assembly member and spokesman for the Conservative group on the 2012 Games, said: “This increased activity has happened disproportionately in the Olympic boroughs.”

Mr Boff said he supported police action where local residents had complained about anti-social behaviour, but added he was worried authorities were “clamping down on prostitution without these complaints”.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said a team had been set up in 2010 to address vice-related crime in the Olympic boroughs.

Host nations are known to crack down on groups like prostitutes and the homeless ahead of the Olympics as hundreds of thousands of international visitors fly in for the event.

At the last Olympics in Beijing in 2008, Chinese authorities expelled poor migrant workers and the homeless from the city prior to the Games.

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