G4S became a big international news story when they failed to supply enough security guards to protect the London Olympics. This debacle was just one in a history of grave and multiple instances of incompetence and abuse. Yet G4S continues to be rewarded with government contracts.
While the world’s biggest security firm has suffered international humiliation over its mishandling of the London Olympics, another more modest piece of business has been unravelling in its hands.
As immigration detainees continue to suffer injury, neglect and even death, the charity Medical Justice challenges the apparent impunity of the UK immigration authorities and their commercial contractors.
Decision not to prosecute G4S over Jimmy Mubenga’s death is depressingly consistent with UK state’s record of racist abuse.
It is time to investigate how the world’s biggest security company operates in the most sensitive areas of our public sphere.
West Midlands against Policing for Profit is a group aiming to prevent the privatisation of the West Midlands and Surrey Police Forces by corporations with dubious human rights records. Activist Jo Jones writes on the latest news regarding these takeovers in the wake of the G4S failure to provide
As G4S and Serco, both accused of human rights abuses, bid for a contract tendered by two English police authorities, protestors rally to pressure the West Midlands Police Authority to reject the bids on grounds of 'grave misconduct'.
It’s no joke — the world’s biggest security company is training immigration staff in “Keeping Children Safe”. • G4S "invited" to deliver training without competition. • UK Border Agency executives "delighted" and "couldn't have been more complimentary". • G4S has record of harming children and adu
The security firm G4S has spread its tentacles far and wide in the UK. Now it is extending its reach into charity, after it signed a contract with a charitable housing association in Yorkshire. Where next?
