A member of police staff stands in front of CCTV screens in London's Metropolitan Police Service Special Operations Room in central London, Thursday, July 19, 2012. The room will be the police control room for the Olympic Games in the capital and is equipped with technology essential to the smooth running of the policing operation. This includes screens on which CCTV can be shown to provide views across the city. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
A member of police staff stands in front of CCTV screens in London's Metropolitan Police Service Special Operations Room in central London, Thursday, July 19, 2012. The room will be the police control room for the Olympic Games in the capital and is equipped with technology essential to the smooth running of the policing operation. This includes screens on which CCTV can be shown to provide views across the city. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
In this photo released by the British MOD, a sniper with Royal Air Force Regiment Sniper, sights through his scope from inside an RAF Puma helicopter at RAF Northolt ahead of carrying out air security duties for Op Olympic, in London, Friday July 13, 2012. Royal Air Force Puma Helicopters and Typhoon fighter jets along with Royal Navy Sea King helicopters are arriving at RAF Northolt ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games to carry out air security. Aircraft that fail to comply with procedures within a restricted airspace zone around Olympic venues could be subject to "lethal force" from the military, it is revealed Friday. (AP Photo / NEIL CHAPMAN, Ministry of Defence)
Police officers stand in front of CCTV screens in London's Metropolitan Police Service Special Operations Room in central London, Thursday, July 19, 2012. The room will be the police control room for the Olympic Games in the capital and is equipped with technology essential to the smooth running of the policing operation. This includes screens on which CCTV can be shown to provide views across the city. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
LONDON (AP) ? Britain's Home Secretary says the government was warned last month about Olympic security manpower issues ? far earlier than has previously been admitted.
Olympic security has been in crisis after contractor G4S made the last-minute admission that it hadn't recruited enough people to guard London's sensitive games sites.
The development forced officials to call in the military to fill the gap, embarrassing ministers who had earlier insisted that everything was on track for the games, which begin July 27.
In a letter to an opposition lawmaker, Home Secretary Theresa May wrote that she was told of a "possible temporary shortfall" in staffing numbers by G4S as long ago as June 27.
That's far earlier than the July 11 date that May had previously mentioned to lawmakers.
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