‘G4S chief must quit over Olympic mess’

Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman suggested while G4S is certainly to blame, the Home Office should also answer for the company’s failure to supply its pledged 13,700 security staff for the Olympics just 11 days before the Games open.

“I think they have been dangerously incompetent on this and I hope they are going to get themselves sorted out before the Games, and really there is going to have to be a major post-mortem,” Harman said.

“The problem is they lost their focus – the government is such a shambles, they are not doing the basic things the government should be doing – the basic things are security and the economy,” she added.

Buckles, whose firm is the world’s largest security firm in terms of revenues, also faces a Commons grilling over the fiasco.

The failure of the G4S and the Home Office has stretched out the army and the police that are forced to bring in thousands of more forces to plug the resultant security black hole.

The Home Office is also under pressure over G4S’s failure after revelations that the police supervisory body the Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC) warned the government last September that they should be ready for “completely normal” situations where firms break their contractual obligations in large projects.

The Home Office has admitted it saw the report but claims they have addressed the raised issues.

Buckles himself has said he is considering stepping down over the mess.

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