Queen’s funeral will be biggest ever event for police, with 10,000 on duty

Hundreds of thousands of mourners are expected to line streets from London to Windsor and 500 foreign dignitaries will visit

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Queen Elizabeth II's funeral will be the biggest ever event for the police and Whitehall, with hundreds of thousands of mourners lining the streets and 500 visiting foreign dignitaries.

Police chiefs say their presence on the streets on Monday will be their largest on record, with more than 10,000 officers on duty determined to thwart any attempt to disrupt or exploit the event.