A Capitol security review following the January 6 riots will recommend adding more fences around the building, as well as more than 1,000 Capitol police, two sources with direct knowledge of the findings told CNN.
The draft of the recommendations proposal arrives just over a month after the speaker Nancy Pelosi
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At the time, Pelosi said that Honoré’s review was to focus on “security infrastructure, interagency processes and procedures and command and control”.
The 1,000 additional employees, which could cost nearly $ 100 million, would include about 350 police officers and an expanded team in regional offices for when lawmakers are at home, one of the sources told CNN.
The network said the recommendations also include the establishment of a rapid reaction force made up of a National Guard military police battalion that is on standby in Washington full-time.
And the report advises long-term security changes in perimeter security, including the construction of an integrated system of walls and fences around the complex.
The Hill contacted Pelosi’s office and the Capitol Police for comment.
Capitol Police officers have supposedly called for the current 2.10 meter high security fence that was erected after the January 6 uprising will remain in effect until September. This happened after US Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman recommended that the fence be left in place permanently, which generated a bipartisan reaction.
Pittman told lawmakers on Thursday that security measures “were not popular”, but said they will have to remain while Congress faces security threats.