The Metropolitan Police and its supporting forcesassigned 84, 000 officer-hours to the operation and warned there would be a "swift and efficient policing response" at the first sign of trouble.
This will be of considerable strategic significance provided the dismantling of the East German army and integration of 50, 000 of its officers (roughly half of the total) and enlisted personnel into the Bundeswer do not wind up greatly reducing the integrity and reliability of those German forcesassigned to NATO.
Approximately 61, 000 of these forces are assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.