Olympic Security Fiasco

Janepig

The little I know of G4S isn't good. They have the contract, locally, for what was the Criminal Justice Interventions Team, now known as IOIS (can't tell you what that stands for), so you get referred to them if you test positive for drugs on arrest at the Police Station, and they also, locally, have just taken over the running of Drug Treatment conditions on community orders. They also run the security at the Magistrates Court where I work. Personally I wouldn't want to work for them as they seem to give their employees the runaround, mess up their pay, contracts, etc... and no-one ever seems to know what's going on.

However, the way things are going, it seems that G4S will shortly be taking over the world!

Jx

ukjoel

My main issue is they have been paid £300 million of taxpayers money to get 10,000 people.

Thats 30k a person for what is a period of 2 weeks for olympics, 2 weeks for special olympics, and I am guessing a week of training.

Even if you stretch this out to 8 weeks, its suggests that we are paying well over the odds for people who for the most part have been pulled out of the universities and the job centres.

They will be getting paid little more than minimum wage and someone somewhere will be earning tens of millions out of this.

I wonder how many MP's are serving as non exec directors on G4S.

daveyjp

Knowing no other company was large enough to bid for the contract resulted in them quoting a figure which was well OTT.

I don't believe they knew they were so many staff short just 9 days ago either, if they did maybe the BBCs 2012 is a fly in the wall documentary as this story could be an episode.

redpete

londonsurrey wrote: »

Do you happen to know why they're having so much trouble recruiting the requisite staff?

Because they need over 10000 people who are available for a short-term contract over a fixed period at a small number of fixed locations, who have the necessary skills and who will get through the security and background checks.