g4s Security

Jessica Elgot

Private Prisons 'Are Better Than Public Ones'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Elgot | Posted 21.02.2013 | UK

Private prisons are more efficient and better at managing re-offending than public prisons, and jails should be put on the open market by the governme...

G4S Loses 28% Of Olympics Security Pay After Locog Claws Back £70m

The Huffington Post UK/PA | Charlie Thomas | Posted 12.02.2013 | UK

G4S - the security firm whose bungled attempts to provide enough people for the Olympic Games made headlines worldwide, is to take a bigger-than-expec...

Olympic Security Firm On Hunt For Ex-Police Officers

PA | Posted 14.08.2012 | UK

The private firm at the centre of the Olympics security shambles is looking to hire former police officers as civilian investigators to work on sensit...

G4S 'Donate £2.5m' To Olympic Troops

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 13.08.2012 | UK

G4S is to donate £2.5m to the Armed Forces as a "goodwill gesture" amid reports the security firm has called in PWC to probe what went wrong after 18...

G4S Donates £2.4m To Army After Security Blunder

PA | Posted 13.08.2012 | UK

G4S is to donate £2.5 million to the Armed Forces as a "goodwill gesture" after 18,200 military personnel were drafted in for London 2012 following a...

Scottish Police To Take Over From G4S

PA | Posted 19.09.2012 | UK

A Scottish police force is taking over responsibility for Olympic security from G4S amid the continuing debacle over staff shortages. The chief con...

Members Of Armed Services Staffing Olympics Forced To Sleep On Makeshift Chairs

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 20.07.2012 | UK

Members of the armed services drafted in to provide Olympic security in the wake of the G4S staffing fiasco are being forced to sleep rough on chairs,...

Buckles Only Learned 'Nine Days Ago' Firm Was Struggling To Fulfill Contract

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 13.09.2012 | UK

G4S boss Nick Buckles was under pressure on Saturday night to explain why he only learned "eight or nine days ago" that his firm was struggling to fin...

Olympic Security Staff May Not Speak English

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 14.07.2012 | UK

The chief executive of G4S has admitted that the company “underestimated” the job of supplying more than 10,000 guards for the Olympic Games. ...