UK G4S fails Olympics, bids for prisons

July 22nd, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

G4S was to supply 13,700 security personnel for the Olympics but it said it would not be able to provide almost 10,000 of the number just 11 days before the Games, which kick off on July 27.

The failure of the G4S stretched out the army and the police that are forced to bring in thousands of more forces to plug the resultant security black hole.

The fiasco led to attacks on the British Home Office for failing to ensure G4S fulfills its contract and triggered calls, including from Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman, for the company’s chief executive Nick Buckles to resign.

G4S is now running five British prisons and bidding to run another five.

Amid the Olympics embarrassment, several unions have raised questions about the company’s eligibility to run more prisons.

“The fiasco involving G4S and the Olympics has shown again how there is little if any accountability to the state and how contracts are far from transparent,” Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary to the probation officers’ union Napo said.

General secretary of the Prison Officers’ Association Steve Gillan has also written to Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke in a bid to prevent G4S taking over running of more prisons.

“I urge you strongly, to think long and hard before any more prisons contracts are handed over to private firms to engage. I fear this is a race to the bottom – and prisons are safer and more accountable when they are run by the public sector,” Gillan told Clarke in the letter.

Napo has estimated G4S could earn up to £40,000 for each prison annually if it wins the new 15-year contracts that would bring in more than £2 million in total for the company.

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