Police stakeout bill for Assange tops £1m as it costs £11,000 a DAY to ensure he doesn't flee ...

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41. Well lets look at it this way

the yearly salary is 32,000 pounds. There are 2,000 work hours in a year meaning an hourly wage of 16 pounds. 11,000/16 = 687.5 hours. divided by 24 hours in a day means you get 28.64 police officers around the clock. Frankly that seem pretty excessive to watch one place. Just how big is the Ecuadoran embassy? Your second link claims between 60 and 120 officers are guarding a single doorway. that is nothing short of absurd overkill and it should be noted wouldn't cost 50,000 pounds. 120 officers would cost about 46,000 pounds. (120\28.64)*11000. Honestly if there is a single entrance it would seem to me that 4 officers would be more than sufficient and would cost 1536 pounds a day. 16 pounds per hour per cop times 4 cops time 24 hours per day = 1536 pounds per day.

On edit read below that the Prime Minister has three guards and they are using upwards of 60 to watch an embassy. Regardless of what one feels about Assange this is overkill and a waste of money. 4 guards per shift should be sufficient.