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Kin, Cops' Secret 'Drill' Got Brit to Psych Ward

Posted Feb 1, 08 6:39 AM CST in Gossip,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Family arrangements with police to get troubled pop star Britney Spears into UCLA Medical Center for an enforced 72-hour psychiatric evaluation yesterday unfolded with almost military precision, reports the Los Angeles Times. Spears' parents, convinced their daughter is suffering from serious mental health problems, had been talking to LA police officials for days to plan the operation. The final convoy accompanying the pop star to the hospital cost the city $25,000.

Spears' mom first planned to take her daughter to the hospital Wednesday night but scuttled that when paparazzi swarmed Britney's home. Hours later, a block-long string of police cars and a helicopter arrived to safeguard Spears' ambulance trip and hold the press at bay. LA's police chief said it was a "shame" scarce resources had to be diverted to the operation but that the force "had no choice but to ensure that we appropriately dealt with this."

Sources Los Angeles Times, CNN, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press

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US pop star Britney Spears arrives at the Los Angeles County...   (Getty Images (by Event))
In this image from APTN video, Lynne Spears, center, Britney Spears' mother is shown leaving UCLA Medical Center with two unidentified people, early Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, in Los Angeles. Britney Spears...   (Associated Press)
In a file photo courtesy of KCBS-TV Britney Spears is carried on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance from her home in Los Angeles Ca. late Thursday night Jan. 3, 2008. Britney Spears was taken from...   (Associated Press)
Britney Spears arrives with her boyfriend Adnan Ghalib (R) at...   (Getty Images (by Event))
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