LA sheriffs patrol Paris with French cops, as Olympic handover to LA28 looms
Parisians and tourists were surprised to cross paths with Los Angeles Sheriff Department officers patrolling the streets of the capital with their French colleagues during the Paris Olympic Games. The cooperation was part of Los Angeles' preparations for the Games that will be held in the city in summer 2028.
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00:00For us, considering we haven't had the Olympics since the 80s and
00:29Los Angeles, a lot of things have changed.
00:32Can we all agree?
00:34So with that being said, being here really gives us the opportunity to interact with
00:39the French police officers, all the different entities and stakeholders that are part of
00:43the Olympics, and take that information back to Los Angeles so that we can have safer Olympic
00:49Games for 2028.
00:51We have four years to go, and we're already preparing.
00:55So we already started the conversations.
00:57We already started the meetings amongst our department.
01:00For the last year, we've been talking about this and preparing.
01:02So to give you an idea, LA-28 is four years away.
01:06We started almost a year ago, having the conversations and preparing.
01:10That's five years of preparation.
01:12That's a very long time for us to prepare, make sure our security's good, make sure everything
01:16is dialed in, and everything's going to be great for LA-28.
01:20That's how I feel about it.
01:21I'm very confident it's going to be great.
01:24After that, it was really nice and interesting to work with them.
01:30I think it brought a lot of security, especially for people who saw police officers from their
01:37country.
01:38I saw the reaction.
01:39Even though people were English, American, Italian, Portuguese, Emirati, when they saw
01:46police officers from their country, people were really happy and talking.
01:50I thought they felt more reassured afterwards.
01:52So it was really positive from that point of view.