He has since renewed the $4.8 million contract with the company, which had hired his former chief deputy to lead a sales team targeting law enforcement contracts. He expanded G4S’ footprint to more than 100 countries and took on business others wouldn’t. Experts say private businesses outsource to security companies like G4S as a visual deterrent to crime and insulation from lawsuits. In a series of written statements, G4S spokeswoman Sabrina Rios said the company enforces strict policies to prevent hiring mistakes, including training for managers and a screening process that goes above and beyond what many clients and states require. Become Member of

Since 2008, the company has employed at least 200 former police and corrections officers who had been stripped of their badges, forced to resign or were reprimanded over serious accusations, such as excessive force, sex offenses, domestic violence, and perjury, according to a USA TODAY/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analysis of publicly available police records and G4S guard rosters. But the company’s efforts to penetrate the U.S. market with low-cost protection have repeatedly come at the expense of its own hiring and training standards.

Its two biggest competitors – Allied Universal and Securitas – have in recent years exceeded G4S’ overall employee count in the U.S. But if you really want to know who does have a finger in the G4S pie, check out the list below, courtesy of Channel 4 News. “We have officers on patrol and post that do not really know what to do or the importance of their position because of lack of training.”. Rios acknowledged that G4S cannot access all of the criminal history information it  would like to get. Source: Public sector outsourcing: the political connections – Channel 4 News. “My stepbrother Robbie started shooting,” she whispered to the 911 operator, trying to stifle her sobs.

The goal was “just to get the bodies in,” said McKinney, who sued G4S alleging racial discrimination and harassment. Theresa May’s husband, Philip, has retained a relatively low profile for much of his life and remains a little-known figure outside of Westminster. Politics is about everybody – so let’s try to get everybody involved! The company denied the allegations and a judge dismissed the suit in 2016. For publication of Global Research articles in print or other forms including commercial internet sites, contact: [email protected]. In 2013, G4S’ security contract was up for renewal at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia, a sprawling military manufacturing campus. Siemens’ Marine Current Turbines unit appointed Andrew Tyler as acting CEO in 2011 and in 2012 he became the chief executive of Northrop Grumman’s UK & European operations; NG is a large American global aerospace and defence technology company. The company is also implementing a program that would continually track employee arrests, she said. He had been discharged from the Army amid questions about his mental health and after threatening to kill a fellow soldier. G4S says about 89% of its yearly revenue in the U.S. comes from the private sector. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which regulates the private security industry, fined G4S $100 for each document, for a total of about $151,000. “The third-party guard was banned from the site.”.

Rios said "G4S had no way of knowing” that Mayo and other guards “would be capable of criminal acts.” She added that they all passed the company's screening procedures. In Washington state, G4S deployed guards without valid licenses because of “administrative staff turnover,” according to a 2014 letter from the company in a state investigation.
Philip John May is the husband of former U.K.'s ex-Home Secretary Theresa May, is estimated to have a net worth of almost $2 million. Lord Clement Jones who was Nick Clegg’s General Election Party Treasurer was a nuclear industry lobbyist. Ministers were wined-and-dined in 2015 by the arms trade at a £450-a-head banquet on Tuesday night just hours after parliament’s International Development Committee said the UK should suspend all arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The London-based company entered the U.S. marketplace in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks and, by its height in 2014, had grown into the third largest private employer in the world, behind only Walmart and Foxconn. Tennessee children’s services officials in 2016 said in agency emails the “continued instability” inside G4S had led to frequent delays in submitting juvenile detention guards’ criminal background checks to the state.

To avoid a trial, they reduced his charges from attempted rape and he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault. Cases were only considered a "match" if there was information available that verified their identity, such as a date of birth, address or a categorically unique name, by census standards.

“If you can’t trust the guards, who can you trust?”. GlobalResearch Center for Research on Globalization. But Mayo was too big. She was later fired. “Fill the post. Instead of taking action against the co-worker she accused, G4S suspended her, according to internal company emails and her sworn testimony. Police arrested a guard in South Florida for allegedly pimping an underage girl out of the hotel he was guarding. The janitor Mayo attacked suffered brain trauma in the incident and quit her job to avoid having to work the night shift alone again. “’If they don’t fit the criteria, put them there anyway and we will weed them out and fire them later.’”. A security manager at BAE Systems, the defense contractor that hired G4S, wrote in a May 2013 email that the site was struggling to refill the positions. One of G4S’ corporate clients is Bank of America, which posts guards outside many branches. G4S has held thousands of government contracts, including guard details at nuclear facilities for the Department of Energy. When he attacked her, she said she tried to run.

Here are four ways to be sure you’re among the first to know what’s going on. She assumed it wasn't a serious charge because he had been honorably discharged from the military. All original material created for this site is © Mike Sivier.

MEP Giles Chichester is president of nuclear lobbyists EEF. The company inherited much of that business after acquiring Wackenhut but sold a subsidiary specific to public contracts in 2014. Why is this Liverpool hospital being penalised for a political decision by NHS England? The sheriff chose “to save... Sharon Morrow holds G4S and the police agency that hired it responsible for the death of her husband in 2013. In 2017 and 2018, at least 65 guards – not including juvenile detention employees – were investigated for misconduct, accused of crimes or disciplined by state regulators. G4S ran the operation for two more years before selling its youth services subsidiary in April 2017.

Evidence, please. The beleagured security firm G4S, which benefits annually from £600m of contracts from government, has a former government minister, Whitehall advisers and civil servants on its board. G4S handed out guns to people who had beaten their wives and committed crimes, according to McKinney, who oversaw about 70 guards. USA TODAY and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel catalogued incidents involving G4S and its employees by first compiling guard rosters from about 20 state agencies that license the security industry. Instead of taking action against the co-worker she accused, G4S suspended her, according... A female guard reported an assault that occurred on June 9, 2014. Bobo confronted another recruiter for "hiring terrorists" because the guards were of Middle Eastern descent, according to the complaint.
Four other inmates were waiting.  Free Books! "Citi took appropriate action,” Drew Benson, a company spokesman, said in a statement. Lord Jenkin was a paid consultant to nuclear industry.

The company hired Bailey in November 2008 and assigned him to guard the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C., on a contract with the U.S. Army. However, company officials shuffled Mateen from post to post due to problems with his co-workers and complaints from law enforcement about threatening behavior, investigations into the Pulse shooting revealed. Florida regulators also found that G4S had submitted more than 1,500 psychological questionnaires, including Mateen’s, purportedly signed by a psychologist who had stopped working with the company two years earlier. "It’s scary because the company has tentacles into every type of industry.”. “We still do not have a training program up and running, which is a huge concern to me,” he said in the email. Other sources of records were the government agencies with which G4S contracts. Ed Davey, Lib Dem energy minister’s brother worked for a nuclear lobbyist. Bernard Ingham, Mrs Thatcher’s press spokesperson, has been nuclear lobbyist for over 25 years.