Andy, I see Thames Valley Police isn’t on there yet, I hope we’re not added to the list 🙁
I’m surprised all this is happening after G4S Olympic failure.
During the Olympics my cousin was doing security (he’s a doorman and his company was given a contract to cover G4S failure) After about 3 days G4S pulled their contract as the doorman were showing up the G4S staff. He said there was so many times that the doormen had to ‘remind’ G4S staff what they had to do, or what they missed, not to mention the fact that most of their staff couldn’t speak English properly.
Is that how it’s going to go with the police civil staff now?

It’s ashame they have gone and done that, especially after how poorly G4S performed coming up to the Olympics.
It is sad to see how the staff were treated too. It’s unfortunate in that now it’s all private it’s unlikely to ever go back to being part of the actual police again and therefore will just be in line for regular ‘restructuring’ (redundancies) and staff reductions. Shame.

Andy, what are G4S doing in Lincoln?
When speaking of 18yrs service, was you once a Police Constable?

I think I heard it mentioned that cargo is good on the MAD – LHR flight too, hence why the A340 is used.

Nice shot of the balloon.
Unlucky about the crankshaft!

The powers that be were trying to make some way of handing traffic over to non-police, not surprising unwelcome, but the subject will come up again.

Prison and prisoner escort duties are mainly in the hands of contractors already, how far will privatisation go?.

Ahh yes I remember now! All talk of ‘private police’ Totally ridiculous!

I noticed that too. I don’t really like having private companies transfer prisoners. That should be down to the police really. Cost cutting no doubt.

Good catches. 🙂

What are the contracts for? I’ve not heard anything about that.
Obviously as someone that wants to be a PCSO or PC, I wouldn’t want to see G4S involved in policing!