Passion - political and sexual - could keep Edmonton cops busy during the 2001 track and field championships, the Criminal Intelligence Service of Alberta suggests.
In a report on potential crime flashpoints across the province, CISA cites prostitution and politics during the August track and field world championships.
"It is highly likely that the local Falun Gong adherents will use the opportunity of the 2001 World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton to gain attention by staging peaceful demonstrations," a CISA report states.
"A possible conflict may develop between the Falun Gong adherents and some members of the local Chinese community ..."
Mass violence is highly unlikely, however. "These conflicts are expected to be minor isolated incidents in nature, ranging from simple verbal insults to minor physical attacks.
"They will most likely be instigated by some of the members of the Chinese community who are pro-China or by some Chinese officials participating in the Games."
Falun Gong has millions of followers in China and elsewhere, attracted by its Chinese religion, health exercises and philosophy.
It was outlawed two years ago by the Chinese government, which calls it a cult.
Followers say they've been jailed, tortured or sent to work camps.
There have been warnings directed at some Falun Gong practitoners in Edmonton, said Guoliang Qu, an adherent for four years.
"In Hawrelak Park we demonstrated Falun Gong and some people said they got a warning from the Chinese Embassy," Qu said.
"But we have no proof of that - there were some people taking pictures of us who may have been from the embassy."
No overt threats have been made, he said.
At the Worlds hot blood of another sort could also send arrest numbers up, says the intelligence agency.
"It is expected that the overall prostitution related offences will increase," the CISA report states.
But cops could match those higher numbers in a sustained crackdown even without the Worlds, the analysts suggest:
"The anticipated increase will result predominately from increased police enforcement."