SALT LAKE CITY?Olympic security preparations are so solid, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday, he would suggest holding the Games here regularly.

Ashcroft finished a five-day tour of Winter Games venues and said he is impressed with the cooperative model created by the 60 agencies involved in Olympic security.

That security effort should be replicated elsewhere for high-profile events, he said.

“I have never witnessed a superior set of officials working together at a higher level of cooperation,” Ashcroft said. “If it were up to me, I’d think seriously about having [the Olympics] here on a regular basis.”