Economy
How the World's Top Security Firm Bungled Olympic Security
G4S, which has a record of mismanagement in Britain, faces scrutiny in the press and from lawmakers.
This week, London got some clues as to why its streets will soon be crawling with soldiers. It’s not solely because the upcoming Olympic Games bring major security risks in their wake, and it doesn’t necessarily stem from an official yen to reshape the city along the lines of 1980s Warsaw. Essentially, soldiers are being so heavily deployed because the military is both cheap and ready, while the Games’ main private security firm, G4S, is neither.
As Atlantic Cities reported yesterday, G4S has just admitted it may not be able to provide the number of guards it promised Games organizers. Now soldiers, potentially up to 3,500, will be drafted in to plug the gap.