New Zealand's top diplomat in India is confident the country's security forces are doing all they can to prepare for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
High Commissioner to India Rupert Holborow was yesterday also "pretty confident" of a strong security presence at the games venues, the athletes' village, and certain hotels and markets.
His office continued to monitor the security environment but he was very pleased with the consultative and on-the-ground work undertaken by the Indian Government.
"At this stage, I am confident that there are no real or perceived threats to security, and that, at this stage, the proposed security is looking respectable," Mr Holborow said during a visit to Dunedin.
The Indian Government's response to perceived security concerns was "one of quantity".
After a bombing in Bangalore, it announced last month that it would deploy 10,000 police and paramilitary forces to protect athletes and visitors from potential terrorist attacks.
Mr Holborow said his office continued to work closely with Indian officials, and that he had regular meetings with the Indian Security Liaison Group to assess developments and risk.
The men's Hockey World Cup, held in India in March, was the first pre-Games test for security and liaison.
It had "respectable" results.
New Zealand would send its own security experts to the commission closer to the start of the Games.
It had also "dusted off" contingency plans to cope with potential emergencies, including food poisoning, dengue fever, crowd control incidents, or worse.
Those contingencies did not include sending athletes home.
Whatever happened, the Government could only advise and assist as sporting bodies developed their own response, Mr Holborow said.
After the April bombing, New Zealand chef de mission Dave Currie said he was satisfied with the way Indian officials were tackling games security.
