32 Facts About G4S

G4S is a British multinational private security company headquartered in London, England.

G4S was set up in 2004 when London-based Securicor amalgamated with Danish firm Group 4 Falck.

G4S offers a range of services, including the supply of security personnel, monitoring equipment, response units and secure prisoner transportation.

G4S is the world's largest security company measured by revenues.

G4S has its origins in a guarding business founded in Copenhagen in 1901 by Marius Hogrefe, originally known as København Frederiksberg Nattevagt and subsequently renamed Falck.

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G4S was formed in July 2004, when Group 4 Falck's security business merged with Securicor to create Group 4 Securicor and began trading on both the Copenhagen and London Stock Exchanges.

In 2006, 2007 and 2008, G4S was the subject of a global campaign by union workers alleging that its subsidiaries undermine labour and human rights standards.

G4S disputed these claims and pointed to its strong relationships with unions around the world, including the GMB in Britain.

In March 2008, it was announced that G4S were taking over Scottish Rock Steady Group – who steward at major sporting and music events mostly in the UK.

G4S acquired the South African cash in transit company Skycom in September 2010.

In December 2011, G4S acquired the assets of Chubb Emergency Response, a large key holding company in the UK.

On 17 October 2011, G4S announced it would purchase the Denmark-based facilities management group ISS for £5.

In Newcastle, G4S was replaced by 500 staff from local security firms for Olympic events.

In Scotland, G4S was stripped of the security role with it passing to Strathclyde Police.

On 8 August 2012, G4S announced that it had finally contracted enough employees to fully fulfil its contract for the Olympic games.

G4S was one of the nominees for the 2013 Public Eye Award, a counter-event created by NGOs, which awards the worst company of the year.

G4S was in the news in June 2016 because of employee Omar Mateen, the gunman behind one of the worst mass-shooting incidents in United States history, who was employed as a security guard by the company.

G4S said two screenings of Mateen—one conducted upon hiring and the other in 2013—had raised no red flags.

Nonetheless, G4S removed Mateen from his job post at a courthouse because of threats he made towards coworkers, including one threat where he claimed he would have al-Qaeda kill a deputy's family.

G4S was said to have passed a psychological test and medical exam performed by Dr Syed Shafeeq Rahman, who had close ties with Mateen's family.

G4S admitted Mateen's form had a "clerical error", and clarified that he had instead been cleared by Rahman, who was from the same firm that bought the wrongly-named doctor's practice.

Saunders had previously directed the Medway Secure Training Centre where juveniles had been found to have been abused before G4S had divested itself of its youth detention component.

In February 2021 the Allied Universal offer was accepted with G4S delisted from the Copenhagen and London Stock Exchanges.

G4S provides 'security systems' such as access control, CCTV, intruder alarms, fire detection, video analytics and security and building systems integration technology.

G4S provides 'secure facilities services' which includes integrated facilities services for entire sites or estates for commercial customers and governments.

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G4S provides electronic tagging and monitoring of offenders at home or in the community.

G4S provides back-office support functions for police forces, support for front-line policing, including the provision of custody suite services and forensic medical services.

In 2011, G4S became a signatory to the UN Global Compact, the international standard to promote socially responsible business behaviour including human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

In 2013, G4S launched a Human Rights Policy, co-authored by human rights expert Dr Hugo Slim, aiming to align the company's practices with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and to introduce additional global guidelines for areas not currently covered by existing standards.

G4S is a founder signatory of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers, a multi-stakeholder initiative convened by the Swiss government.

In 2007, G4S began the G4S 4teen, an award-winning program to support 14 young athletes around the world.

G4S provided financial, social and logistical support to a number of athletes taking part in London 2012, including Colombian cyclist and 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist Mariana Pajon, Kenyan long-distance runner Pauline Korikwiang, and Estonia's former discus thrower and shot-putter, now-Indianapolis Colts defensive end Margus Hunt.