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The company offers a range of services, including the supply of security personnel, monitoring equipment, response units and secure prisoner transportation. G4S also works with governments overseas to deliver security services. G4S is the world's largest security company measured by revenues. It has operations in more than 90 countries. [4]
The private security industry in South Africa is the largest in the world, [2] with over 10,380 registered companies and over 2.5 million registered security guards of which 556,000 active and a further 2 million reserves; [3] many times more than the available personnel of the South African Police Service and South African Army, combined [4 ...
In October 2013, the BBC reported that there are allegations of prisoners being tortured at Mangaung Prison in South Africa. [45] The BBC cites research from the Wits Justice Project at Wits University in Johannesburg, claiming that dozens of the nearly 3,000 inmates at the G4S prison have been tortured using electroshock and forced injections.
G4S Secure Solutions (USA) is an American/British-based security services company, and a subsidiary of G4S plc. It was founded as The Wackenhut Corporation in 1954, in Coral Gables, Florida , by George Wackenhut and three partners (all former FBI agents).
The company was established by Swedish businessman Jörgen Philip-Sörensen, as a division of Securitas AB in 1968. [1] The name derives from the fact that it brought together four different British security businesses into a single entity which became known as Group 4 Total Security and which was demerged from Securitas AB in 1981. [1]
G4S Secure Solutions (Društvo za privatno obezbeđenje G4S Secure Solutions d.o.o) is a Serbian security company specialized in guarding, monitoring, cash handling, analyzing-consulting, security education and in sale of security systems.
The Mangaung Prison (Afrikaans: Mangaung-gevangenis) is a maximum security prison in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. The prison is privately owned and managed by the company G4S as part of a consortium. [1] The South African Department of Correctional Services signed a 25-year contract with the consortium in 2000. The prison can ...
Ashley Martin Almanza (born 27 March 1963) [1] is a South African [2] businessman, who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of G4S plc since 1 June 2013. [ 3 ] Education