{"id":50910,"date":"2009-05-17T01:20:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T01:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2009\/05\/17\/william-harrys-security-may-be-scaled-down\/"},"modified":"2009-05-17T01:20:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T01:20:31","slug":"william-harrys-security-may-be-scaled-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2009\/05\/17\/william-harrys-security-may-be-scaled-down\/","title":{"rendered":"William, Harry\u2019s security may be scaled down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Prince William and Prince Harry\u2019s security could soon be scaled down after the Scotland Yard has ordered a review of their protection costs, a leading British newspaper has claimed.<br \/>\nWilliam and Harry currently get 24-hour protection, that costs some 50 million pounds a year.<br \/>\nBut senior police officers have questioned whether the high price could be justified given the Royals\u2019 frequent party hopping habits. Another strain was put on their security when Harry and William joined the armed forces and instantly became targets for terrorists, the Daily Star reported. The review has been welcomed by the former head of the Scotland Yard\u2019s Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Squad, who said there was \u201cno direct threat\u201d to the Royals when he was in charge of the squad.<br \/>\n\u201cI think it is perfectly right to ask the question why we are doing it. Is it justified when we are sending soldiers to Afghanistan who\u2019re not properly equipped? Why don\u2019t we give priority to people who really do need protecting?\u201d Dai Davies was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince William and Prince Harry\u2019s security could soon be scaled down after the Scotland Yard has ordered a review of their protection costs, a leading British newspaper has claimed. William and Harry currently get 24-hour protection, that costs some 50 million pounds a year. But senior police officers have questioned whether the high price could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}