Police: Assange security ‘sucking’ resources

The UK police says keeping watch on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is sucking its resources.

We are reviewing how we can do that differently in the future because its sucking our resources in, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe told LBC radio.

Hogan-Howe also said Met is reviewing guarding tactics as it faces funding cuts.

We wont talk explicitly about our tactics, but were reviewing what options we have, he added.

Hefty price tag

Figures disclosed to LBC radio suggest that UK police has spent some 10m on guarding Assange, who has been holed up at the Ecuadorean embassy in central London.

The whistleblower has been locked in the embassy since June 2012 and faces arrest if he leaves the site.

British police have been standing guard outside the embassy to prevent Assange from escaping.

Back in 2014, Scotland Yard confirmed that the security costs reached 9m in the first 28 months. The cost of a further three months policing is estimated to have taken the total figure to about 10m.

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