Multi-organizational collaborative public safety and security planning for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), with its mandated responsibility for the protection of Internationally Protected Persons1 and its role as the provincial police force in British Columbia and in many of the local municipalities, was assigned as the lead agency for security planning and operations for the Games. [...] In the same year as the Olympics, Canada was also slated to host the Group of Eight (G8) meeting and many of the same federal departments and agencies would also be implicated in the security planning for that event. [...] As a result, the Canadian federal government created the Office of the Coordinator for 2010 Olympics and G8 Security (OCS) to coordinate and support the federal efforts in security planning and operations for the events of 2010. [...] DRDC CSS SL 2012-010 While the focus of the OCS was on coordinating the federal community, the need for both it and the federal partners to collaborate with provincial, municipal and private sector partners was recognized from the beginning. [...] The after event review process looked at the issues, relationships and dynamics at the “seams”, i.e., the interface between the federal departments and agencies and other governmental or non-governmental organizations as they pertained specifically to the V2010 security planning and operations.