Olympics Security

Philip Hammond: G4S Fiasco Has Made Me Pause For Thought

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 14.08.2012 | UK Politics

Defence secretary Philip Hammond has suggested the failure of security firm G4S to fulfil their contract to guard the London 2012 Olympics has made hi...

Olympics Security Police Lose Keys

PA | Posted 28.09.2012 | UK

Police checking security at Wembley Stadium for the Olympic Games have lost a set of keys. Officers searching the venue ahead of the start of event...

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,...

Minister Refuses To Express Confidence In Nick Buckles..

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 18.07.2012 | UK Politics

A government minister has indicated that the £57m management fee being claimed by Nick Buckles of the fiasco-prone Olympic security firm G4S could be...

G4S Shares Plunge After Olympic Security Shambles

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.07.2012 | UK

G4S faces continued pressure today over the Olympics security debacle, as share prices fell. Yesterday bosses at the private security firm insisted...

Who Could Provide Further Security at the Olympic Games?

Philip Hepple | Posted 16.09.2012 | UK Comedy
Philip Hepple

With the likes of wars and GBH still on-going, the army and the police already have jobs that deserve their attention, so dragging them out of where they need to be is not the best solution to the problem. There are other ways of adding security at the games that have seemingly been overlooked.

G4S Boss: We've Totally Messed Up But Will Still Take The £57m Fee

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK

The boss of G4S, the firm at the centre of the Olympics security fiasco, has admitted that not paying staff for training coupled with a failure of his...

G4S Boss: We've Totally Messed Up But I'm Still Taking My £57m Fee

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK Politics

The boss of G4S, the firm at the centre of the Olympics security fiasco, has admitted that not paying staff for training coupled with a failure of his...

LIVE: Nick Buckles Faces MPs Over Olympics Security Staff Failures

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 16.09.2012 | UK Politics

The boss of G4S Nick Buckles is appearing before MPs on the Home Affairs committee to explain how his company failed to fulfill on its contract to pro...

G4S 'Theme Tune' Discovered

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.07.2012 | UK

With news that private security firm G4S will be unable to honour its full £284m contract to supply staff for the Olympic Games, one might think that...

Syrian General Wants To Attend Olympics

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 26.07.2012 | UK

A Syrian general with links to President Bashar Assad's regime has declared his determination to come to Britain for the London Olympics. General M...

MoD Reveals Five More Olympic Missile Sites

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.04.2012 | UK

Surface-to-air missiles could be deployed at six sites across London during the Olympics, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday. The Lexington Bui...

Olympics SAM Missile Plan For East London Flats

PA/The Huffington Post | Posted 28.06.2012 | UK

The Army is to station soldiers and high velocity surface-to-air missiles on top of a block of residential flats to ward off any airborne terror threa...

The Future of Disruption of Public Events

Dr Raj Persaud | Posted 10.06.2012 | UK
Dr Raj Persaud

An analysis of the 'lone wolf' phenomenon suggests that to describe all such individuals as merely 'idiots', is to grossly underestimate what you might be dealing with.

More Military Personnel To Be Posted To Olympics Than Sent To Afghanistan

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.02.2012 | UK

The London 2012 Olympics will see more than two thousand military personnel called out to work as part of the security force for the Games, Defence Se...

Thousands Of Applications For Security Jobs At Olympics

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK

Security firm G4S has received 34,000 applications for 10,0000 security jobs at the London 2012 Olympic Games. So far 20,000 of the G4S application...

Olympic Security Concerns After Sniffer Dogs Fail To Spot Fake Al-Qaeda Bomb

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 13.01.2012 | UK

Fresh security concerns have hit the London 2012 Olympics after sniffer dogs failed to detect 20 kilos of explosives during a security test run. Ex...