G4S Debacle Continues

reblogged from i-thorts' i-Politics

OLYMPICS: Have Police Saved G4S Security Crisis?

Of the 12 police forces around the Olympics venue, 9 are believed to have been drafted in to shore-up the shortfall in G4S security staff at the 2012 Games.

Olympic Police
Pic: Daily Mail

Sky News have reported that the police have “deployed hundreds of officers” – but that might change in the next few days.

The Police National Olympic Security Coordinator, Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison, says that plans “were put in place” so that the police officers could deploy these officers, because  “delivering a safe and secure Games is priority…”

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UPDATE:

It appears that the G4S fiasco could have been prevented. A leaked memo from G4S Head of Olympic Security has revealed that advanced training of new recruits was 'too expensive'.

With 3,000 unpaid volunteers, and students and others in current employment (who's training will have to be rushed before the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games); it isn't surprising that this fiasco has taken place.