Tuesday, July 17, 2012

OLYMPIC GAMES PRIVATE SECURITY DEBACLE- WIN WIN!

The security of the Olympic venues should have been totally managed from the centre, by that, I mean by the Government. What a cavalier attitude this Government has demonstrated to State Security. Lop it off, sub-contract it,abnegate the responsibility for it, by selling it at the cheapest price. There is a convenient whipping boy now, G4S, whose main error was accepting and signing an impossible contract. Their corporate vanity has been their undoing.
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The silver lining for the State, is that they can now be seen to be rescuing the security of the Olympic Games at a series of major events, in a number of spread out venues. The Government avoids a public slating for using the Armed Forces, by letting a private company create a wholesale security cock up. The Armed Forces and civilian police, many of whom are working towards unemployment, are to be thanked, we are to be grateful to them for stepping in to the breach, (not for being used). These people, who have appropriate experience and expertise, will be paid proper salaries. They will either have homes travelling distance from the venues, or temporary housing will be provided. None of them will be sheltering under bridges. 

Conscripts have to turn up for work, and they are provided for. People who are trained on a Just In Time basis, who are unpaid and held on standby till they start a job have no incentive to be loyal to a company; they can go elsewhere, take part time jobs,start earning, nearer where they live. The pool of retired ex-service and police personnel will also walk away. They can find jobs through other agencies who will not leave them in employment limbo 

And last, but by no means least, there is a further big bonus for the Government. GS4's penalty clauses mean the company will pay the Government and, presumably the police, for the security work undertaken. It's win, win for the Government.

6 comments:

Flighty said...

A complete shambles! Flighty xx

Anonymous said...

Wouldn't it be a refreshing change to have a government who simply got on with the job of sorting out the country instead of always trying to find convenient scapegoats & whipping-boys?

Jennytc said...

Greece is still struggling to pay off debts incurred from hosting the Olympics and we will be in a similar position - or worse, by the time this lot is finished.

ZACL said...

Hello Mr F,

I agree the security set up has been a shambles, a contrived one perhaps! the Government gain from it.

xx

ZACL said...

Hi Axe,

Nice point, but isn't easier to divert public attention from the inadequacies than deal with them, (as you say). This is another one of those tactical diversions. How dare they play with the country's security in this way!

ZACL said...

Hi Jennyta,

I am sure we will never know the real cost of the millstone legacy.

Some political competency would be refreshing, wouldn't it.