Rio de Janeiro’s Ministry of Justice has announced that the city will spend R$350 million on security for the 2016 Olympic Games over the three years of preparation for the event. Around R$100 million of that budget have already been spent on new equipment.
Andrei Passos, Jose Beltrame and Sergio Simões announced the creation of a special security commission for Rio 2016, photo by Fernando Frazão/Agencia Brasil.
The announcement was made in a reunion at Rio’s central command center between Special Secretary for security at big events, Andrei Augusto Passos Rodrigues, Rio’s Security Secretary, José Mariano Beltrame and State Secretary for Civil Defense, Sérgio Simões on February 4th.
“We are taking advantage of the equipment from the World Cup, but this is an event of other dimensions. We’ve already spent R$100 million for equipment last year and we will make more investments. The total amount spent will reach R$350 million,” Passos explained.
The three secretaries also announced the creation of a special security commission for the Olympic Games, the COESRio. “We are institutionalizing the collaboration and integration that always existed. But now we are giving it a form,” Beltrame stated.
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Rio de Janeiro’s Ministry of Justice announced that the city will
spend 350M reais ($127M) "on security for the 2016 Olympic Games over the
three years of preparation for the event," according to Lisa Flueckiger of the RIO TIMES. Around 100M reais ($36M) of that
budget has "already been spent on new equipment." Special Secretary for Security Andrei Augusto Passos Rodrigues said, "We are taking advantage of the equipment from the World Cup, but
this is an event of other dimensions. We’ve already spent 100 million reais
for equipment last year and we will make more investments. The total
amount spent will reach 350M reais." Brazil "also announced the creation of a special
security commission for the Olympic Games, the COESRio." Rio Security Secretary José Mariano
Beltrame said, “We are
institutionalizing the collaboration and integration that always
existed. But now we are giving it a form" (
RIO TIMES, 2/5).