Queen's funeral: Hampshire and Dorset police support operation
Both forces have confirmed personnel will support over the coming days
Police officers from Dorset and Hampshire are joining the huge policing operation in London and Windsor ahead of the Queen's state funeral on Monday (19th September 2022).
Both forces have confirmed personnel will support over the coming days, but haven't revealed numbers.
Members of the public are now able to see Her Majesty's coffin, as she lies in state at Westminster Hall until the early hours of Monday.
Visitors are being told to expect to wait up to 30 hours.
Ken Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, described the policing operation as "very challenging".
He told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme: "It's very challenging, it's the biggest thing we've had to put in place for a public area and bear in mind this is completely public where everyone will be standing and gathering. So, it's a real challenge for us purely because of the numbers.
"We're not daunted by the operation at all ... it's been in place ... for many, many years, but it's the unknown, it's the numbers. We've had estimates from a million to five million. We've got to see how that unfolds, my colleagues will be up to the challenge, do not be concerned by that, and we will deal with everything that's put in front of us and the plans are in place for massive numbers."
On security, he added: "There is huge training, my colleagues are trained probably the best in the world in terms of what they'd do and there are a lot of things in place where action can be taken to prevent a terrorist attack or any other sort of attack towards members of the royal family."