JO JO2012 Jeux Olympiques Londres
Profit and Security at the London Olympics
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By Tarak Barkawi,
Al Jazeera
July 17,2012
G4S, the largest private security company in the world, fell short of providing an adequate number of security personnel for the London Olympics. The British Armed Forces are to fill in the void created by G4S. G4S’ failure to recruit sheds light on their underlying profit motive. G4S is doing less to pocket more, with little accountability. The privatization of security is in effect contributing to a ‘de-development’ of traditional government services.
The British armed forces will have to provide an additional 3,500 for Olympic security on short notice [AFP]
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.