More than 1,000 security cameras set up for Vancouver Olympic Games

By Steve Mertl (CP)

VANCOUVER, B.C. — A vast network of security cameras set up for the Winter Olympics doesn't go on line officially until Monday, but it's already nabbed its first miscreant.

The apprehension of the apparently hapless drunk has police crowing about the efficiency of the cameras.

But privacy watchdogs have been nervous about the unprecedented deployment of electronic surveillance in Canada and sought assurances the cameras will be gone as quickly as the athletes after the Games.

More than a thousand new closed-circuit cameras will be in place monitoring the boundaries of Olympic venues and spots in Vancouver and Whistler where crowds will gather.

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