The boss of G4S apologises for Olympic security debacle
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G4S should hang its head in shame. Every penny paid for extra security provided by the Army should be paid for by G4S. If many of the stories are true this company is just a shambles. I doubt it will recover its reputation any time soon, if I were a shareholder I'd sell.
Arguably their reputation barely matters. Crapita have had a terrible reputation since almost day one, but they consistently secure Govt contracts in part because there is so little competition from other organisations who can pass the basic threshold criteria of "experience" (whether the experience was good or bad hardly matters).
I think it is G4S fault, as they had plenty of time from when they took the contract out to get the correct amount of security trained up for this event, they really have failed in my eyes.
G4S should hang its head in shame. Every penny paid for extra security provided by the Army should be paid for by G4S. If many of the stories are true this company is just a shambles. I doubt it will recover its reputation any time soon, if I were a shareholder I'd sell.
Posted by: Malcolm Dunn | July 14, 2012 at 06:24 PM
Disagree, in my opinion this is not G4S' fault (even though I'd like to say it is) - this is down to the Olympic organisers.
Posted by: Public Sector Worker | July 14, 2012 at 07:03 PM
Arguably their reputation barely matters. Crapita have had a terrible reputation since almost day one, but they consistently secure Govt contracts in part because there is so little competition from other organisations who can pass the basic threshold criteria of "experience" (whether the experience was good or bad hardly matters).
Posted by: greg | July 14, 2012 at 08:53 PM
I think it is G4S fault, as they had plenty of time from when they took the contract out to get the correct amount of security trained up for this event, they really have failed in my eyes.
Posted by: Bob from Security in Luton | July 16, 2012 at 09:13 AM
G4S has apologized already for what happened and I think they should just make it better next time and prevent it from happening again.
Posted by: Contract Recruitment | August 28, 2012 at 04:55 AM