The Canadian Armed Forces will be taking part in security exercises starting Monday in the Vancouver and Whistler area. (CBC)

Helicopters, hovercraft, and other military vehicles will be hard at work across the Lower Mainland and around other Olympic venues this week as the police, the Armed Forces and other agencies start their Olympic security exercises on Monday.

The training, known as Exercise Silver, is the second phase of the training exercises.

The public will have no advance warning of exactly when or where the exercises will staged, but RCMP Const. Bert Paquet is promising they will have few effects.

"There will be little to no disruption to people of the city's everyday life," said Paquet.

Much of Exercise Silver is focused on information-sharing across government and non-governmental agencies and will be out of the public eye. Some exercises will be conducted in full view of the public.

"What the public can expect to see definitely is some increased activities in the Burrard Inlet, along the coastline, Howe Sound and at times above the air in the Greater Vancouver area," he said.

With more than 1,000 people from more than 100 departments and agencies working together, they have to be sure they know how to communicate and operate with each other effectively, he said.

"We want to practise a variety of scenarios, and that way once game time comes, real time, and then we are prepared for all of the eventuality that we might face," he said.

The exercise will run until Thursday. The first phase, Exercise Bronze, ran in November. The third phase of the training, known as Exercise Gold, will take place in the fall.