G4S is a global private company and in the UK at least has come in for extensive criticism - at the corporate level and individual employee(s). I do not refer to the debacle over the London Olympics.
Here are links to UK reports in the last week or so as an illustration.
Link:http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourking...21eb-407789593Yesterday the Crown Prosecution Service said three former G4S guards, Stuart Tribelnig, Terry Hughes and Colin Kaler, would stand trial for the manslaughter of Jimmy Mubenga on a BA plane in October 2010. Long before Mubenga's death, Lord Ramsbotham warned repeatedly that Home Office contractors used dangerous methods of restraint.
The BBC report:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26665039In a statement G4S said the three men charged no longer worked for the company and it no longer had a contract escorting detainees from the UK.Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26541375Troubled security firm G4S has agreed to repay £108.9m plus tax to the UK government after overcharging on contracts to tag offenders.
The payment is higher than the £24m offered last year by G4S, which faces a fraud inquiry into the tagging scandal.
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