G4S - the Anglo-Danish conglomerate - has put the security of the London
Olympics at risk. Or so it would seem according to recent headlines.
The
largest private security company in the world, G4S employs over 650,000
people in 125 countries. But the news broke last week that it could not
provide the 13,000 security guards it had promised for the Olympics.
Britain's
muckraking journalists responded with aplomb. The papers abounded with
stories of inept trainees asleep in classes or lacking in English. Other
would-be security guards failed to spot pistols, bombs and grenades.
Certainly, G4S' shenanigans have laid the ground for a scandal of Olympic proportions if terrorist attacks do occur.
The
British armed forces now have to provide at short notice an additional
3,500 personnel on top of 13,500 already committed to the Olympics.
Troops returning from Afghanistan and others who were training for
deployment will make up for G4S' apparent inability to recruit enough
rent-a-cops. Real police are also being taken off their beats to fill
the gaps.
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