Police in the county were sent patrolling, to prevent looting.

Officials sent police troops to maintain order and prevent looting.

The order was issued to minimize casualties and prevent looting.

The army was called in to help prevent looting.

He said its forces had entered the capital after having pledged not to do so only to prevent violence and looting.

This operation was taken in order to prevent looting and vandalism.

Quite how this will prevent looting and rioting is not entirely clear.

While councilman he tried to prevent looting of the city treasury, with limited success.

Everything we have there is being distributed to prevent looting.

Local police forces were also stepped up to prevent looting.