Now the Army is giving the orders…(UK Martial Law!)
As foreign athletes start to arrive, military sends officers to G4S HQ to tackle security shambles
KIM SENGUPTA NIGEL MORRIS
IndependentUK
TUESDAY 17 JULY 2012
Army chiefs have been dispatched to the headquarters of G4S to take a more active role in controlling security for the London Olympics, The Independent has learnt, following the company’s failure to fulfil its £250m contract to guard the Games.
The move marks an escalation in the military’s involvement in the saga and results from a sense of mounting concern and anger within Whitehall about G4S’s inability to provide the promised security guards to guard athletes and spectators over the coming month. It will be viewed as a further wounding blow to the firm’s credibility.
Police officers from nine forces are also now being drafted in to bolster the security operation at Olympic venues and athletes’ hotels after G4S staff failed to appear.
The military may be asked to supply another 2,000 personnel, after already increasing numbers deployed to 17,000 following the failure of G4S to present the full quota of guards needed for the Olympics.
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