Volunteers deployed as part of Olympics security workforce
20 July 2012
Olympic volunteers make up more then one in eight of the 23,000-strong security personnel being deployed for the London Olympics.
Fri, 20 Jul 2012
Olympic volunteers make up more then one in eight of the 23,700-strong security personnel being deployed for the London Olympics.
As the controversy surrounding G4S's inability to supply the 10,400 security personnel it was contracted to provide continues, Recruiter can reveal that 3,000 volunteers are among the 23,700-strong security workforce.
A London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) spokesperson tells Recruiter: “They will be doing things like getting queues in order and getting people prepared to have their bags searched.
“The actual searching will be carried out by a mixture of G4S and military personnel,” adds the spokesperson.
As recruiter.co.uk went to press Locog had not responded to Recruiter’s questions on when the decision to include volunteers as part of the security workforce was taken, and what training the volunteers have received.
Meanwhile, LOCOG says it will not be taking up an offer of help from a security company to provide staff from India.
The offer comes from Richie Nanda, executive chairman of UK-based The Shield Guarding Company, which is owned by Indian security firm Topsgrup.
Nanda tells Recruiter: “Topsgrup could, as a special initiative, try and provide trained and licensed, civilian and ex-defence security resources from our large employee base in India at short notice to assist and aid the law enforcement agencies and G4S in the security operations for the Games.”
However, the LOCOG spokesperson tells Recruiter that the offer “is too late”, adding that “the contract is with G4S” and that “it isn’t possible to enter into negotiations with other companies”.
A G4S spokesman tells Recruiter that the offer to provide staff from India isn’t feasible because all personnel working on the security contract must be EU citizens.
Olympic volunteers make up more then one in eight of the 23,700-strong security personnel being deployed for the London Olympics.
As the controversy surrounding G4S's inability to supply the 10,400 security personnel it was contracted to provide continues, Recruiter can reveal that 3,000 volunteers are among the 23,700-strong security workforce.
A London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) spokesperson tells Recruiter: “They will be doing things like getting queues in order and getting people prepared to have their bags searched.
“The actual searching will be carried out by a mixture of G4S and military personnel,” adds the spokesperson.
As recruiter.co.uk went to press Locog had not responded to Recruiter’s questions on when the decision to include volunteers as part of the security workforce was taken, and what training the volunteers have received.
Meanwhile, LOCOG says it will not be taking up an offer of help from a security company to provide staff from India.
The offer comes from Richie Nanda, executive chairman of UK-based The Shield Guarding Company, which is owned by Indian security firm Topsgrup.
Nanda tells Recruiter: “Topsgrup could, as a special initiative, try and provide trained and licensed, civilian and ex-defence security resources from our large employee base in India at short notice to assist and aid the law enforcement agencies and G4S in the security operations for the Games.”
However, the LOCOG spokesperson tells Recruiter that the offer “is too late”, adding that “the contract is with G4S” and that “it isn’t possible to enter into negotiations with other companies”.
A G4S spokesman tells Recruiter that the offer to provide staff from India isn’t feasible because all personnel working on the security contract must be EU citizens.
