G4S Being Investigated for Fraud

[FiF]

What is it about these companies though?

G4S
SERCO also implicated in this and they're a great success in other roles - not.
Crapita no need to say any more
GEO AMEY another shower.
And so on.

About time they were all brought to account.

[smegmore]

FiF said:

What is it about these companies though?

G4S
SERCO also implicated in this and they're a great success in other roles - not.
Crapita no need to say any more
GEO AMEY another shower.
And so on.

About time they were all brought to account.

But...this is private enterprise, the bedrock of PHer philosophy !!

[Sonic]

I wonder what bearing this will have on the MoJ electronic tagging contract that's up soon.

[PugwasHDJ80]

smegmore said:

But...this is private enterprise, the bedrock of PHer philosophy !!

yeah private enterprise selling into a clerly uncontrolled Public sector

has anyone in the public sector heard of "3-way matching", or purchase audits?

[Russ T Bolt]

PugwasHDJ80 said:

smegmore said:

But...this is private enterprise, the bedrock of PHer philosophy !!

yeah private enterprise crooks fiddling the Public sector

Fixed that for you

[BlackLabel]

Holy thread resurrection etc however G4S are in the news again, this time for making hoax 999 calls.

Guardian said:

Five G4S Lincolnshire police control room staff have been suspended after allegations that they were making hundreds of 999 calls at quiet times to improve their perceived performance.

The five call handling staff, who are believed to include the Lincolnshire force control room manager, are understood to have made more than 600 bogus “test calls” in order to meet their target of answering 92% of calls within 10 seconds or less.

The suspended officers were all former Lincolnshire police employees who transferred to G4S four years ago when the private security company took over a £200m contract – the largest ever – to run the force’s back-office services. G4S has claimed the contract saves the force £6m a year and hailed it as a potential model for the rest of British policing.

Link

[XCP]

Doesn't surprise me.

[Rovinghawk]

Give them a fair trial. If guilty, nail them to the wall as an example to everyone else.

[Steffan]

Perhaps one of the most unpleasant developments in modern politics has been the growth of dishonest businesses serialising the illegal activities of criminals masquerading as legitimate businesses and hanging onto the tailcoats of less than forthright politicians enabling theur bsinesses to milk millions from the UK taxpaer. Sadly G4S is just one such disgrace. There are many, many others!

[greygoose]

How many times do g4s have to mess up before the Home Secretary takes action?

Or perhaps not

Edited by greygoose on Monday 23 May 23:36

[Rovinghawk]

greygoose said:

How many times do g4s have to mess up before the Home Secretary takes action?

They're probably as guilty as sin but you shouldn't make that presumption. They're innocent parties until the judge says otherwise.

I presume the HS can't take action without some form of proof rather than allegations.

[greygoose]

Rovinghawk said:

greygoose said:

How many times do g4s have to mess up before the Home Secretary takes action?

They're probably as guilty as sin but you shouldn't make that presumption. They're innocent parties until the judge says otherwise.

I presume the HS can't take action without some form of proof rather than allegations.

I have added a link from when the contract was awarded, I am sure justice will never happen.

[Rovinghawk]

greygoose said:

I am sure justice will never happen.

Of course not.

[BlackLabel]

A police investigation into the G4S-run child jail in Kent at the centre of allegations of abuse and use of excessive force by staff deepened after five new arrests were made, this time on suspicion of misconduct in public office

[Murph7355]

eccles said:

And Serco..... Bloomin public sector being inefficient and getting things wrong........oh no, it's private sector.... carry on then.

One presumes that our Civil Service have put solid enough contracts in place that any "mistakes" will be recompensed.

Now, when the Public Sector screws up, who pays?

[Steffan]

Murph7355 said:

eccles said:

And Serco..... Bloomin public sector being inefficient and getting things wrong........oh no, it's private sector.... carry on then.

One presumes that our Civil Service have put solid enough contracts in place that any "mistakes" will be recompensed.

Now, when the Public Sector screws up, who pays?

The fax payers of the UK.

Sadly modern politics has become a self promotion game where future security, massive untouchable pensions and permanent secure offshore employment is the fulfilment of screwing the taxpayers fr decades.

Not going to change I regret to say. Neil Kinnck, Tony Blair et al being the prime movers. I can see no end to this currently.

[BlackLabel]

They've now been caught abusing people at one of the immigration removal centres they run.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-41153733/g4s-what-...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/g4s...

[BlackLabel]

“The security firm G4S appears to have been making more profit than its contract allows from the immigration removal centres (IRCs) it runs for the government, according to an internal document seen by the Guardian.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/13/g...

“Home Office launches inquiry into G4S finances”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41319218