By: Las Vegas Now Staff
“The Best is Yet to Come” is the theme for the Las Vegas New Year's Eve party along the Las Vegas Strip and at the Fremont Street Experience.
As many as 400,000 people will gather to celebrate ringing in the new year. America's Party as it is called will include live entertainment in downtown Las Vegas and a fireworks show on the Las Vegas Strip. Fireworks will be launched from seven resort rooftops.
LasVegasNOW.com has complete coverage on our New Year's 2008 page
Police will have hundreds of officers in between barricades down the middle of the strip. The barricades will provide easy access for them and emergency crews to move up and down the streets with ease in case of emergency.
It's an idea they got from officers in New York handling the crowd at Times Square. Each officer will also have emergency crews alongside them.
Deputy Chief Gary Schofield says they'll be utilizing every available officer on the force that night.
“There's a lot of things going on and every available officer. Even undercover plain clothes officers are put back in uniform that night. They have to shave their beards off and cut their hair, but that's what we do,” he said.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has a complete list of events on their website.
There are also going to be several road closures starting at 5 p.m.
Police are offering several pointers to people interested in joining the party on the Strip. They want to remind revelers that the curfew for people under 18 will be strictly enforces.
People with small children and strollers are urged to avoid the Strip.
Police also remind the public that climbing on power poles is illegal and will lead to an arrest.
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