UK Labour calls for ban on G4S contracts

Speaking at the launch of Labour’s campaign for Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections in central London on July 19, Miliband said no more deals should be signed until the company’s capacity to provide services is properly investigated.

The Labour leader also said that it “beggars belief” that the firm is trying to cling on to a £57m management fee for its work on the 2012 London Olympic Games contract while it has left the Olympics security in chaos.

“I don’t think that G4S should receive their £57m management fee for services provided to the Olympics,” he said.

“The fact that you’ve got, you know, our troops who are having to have leave cancelled, the police having to step in, the stories from around the country, I cannot believe it’s right for them to receive that fee.”

After the British private security company G4S said it could not supply 10,400 forces for Olympics security, British Home Secretary Theresa May authorized the call-up of 3,500 extra military soldiers for Olympic security.

Furthermore, the country’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) made urgent plans to deploy up to 2,000 more soldiers in case G4S would fail to deliver on its revised target of 7,000 security staff for the events.

Miliband also called for the resignation of the firm’s chief executive Nick Buckles for leaving the Olympics security in chaos, saying G4S had “serious questions to answer about the fact that it needs new leadership beyond the Olympic Games.”

Meanwhile, he accused the Tory-led government of giving core police roles to private companies, saying, “People want bobbies on the beat, not G4S.”

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