I really miss those 'back to the floor' type tv shows where the top boss goes undercover in his own organisation.

WTM

Well he has only had four years to work on it, after all!! Give him a chance!!

Vilify G4S as much as you like. They have had to follow government rules on recruitment. Which only allows them to employ certain people. People that can pass the strict screening procedure. About 20% of applicants failed at the first hurdle!

All they needed was a checkable work record!

Then they needed an SIA Licence. Have a guess who issues them? The Government. And they aint free. It takes an age to get an SIA Licence. You have to provide more information to SIA than the bloody Passport people.

I pressed enter too early.sorry..

reckonon G4S thought they could rely on students looking for summer jobs at 10 or 15 quid an hour and ididn'tnt happen.

There's no shortage of companies offering SIA training for £99 on a quick Google search, and I would think that the vast majority of personnel required would be at the lower end of the training level for what is basically a temp job.

Is it not possible to easily take on existing security staff working doors etc from around the country that are already security cleared and trained to at least at a basic level?