Ms Sidwell said she stayed inside for the rest of her time at the hotel, before she was eventually free to leave on May Katherine Godolphin pictured , 46, was alone in a lift with a security guard when she says he touched his genitals and mimed having sex. Katherine Godolphin, 46, was staying at the Heathrow Bath Road Holiday Inn after returning from work on a conservation and anti-poaching project in Zimbabwe when a guard 'made kind of humping motions at me' while they were alone together in a lift.
She said 'he was just disgusting' but she thought it was an isolated incident and did not report it. The next day, as she was again accompanied by the same man on her exercise break, she said he made an angry remark about the security camera, turned around, touched himself and complained his testicles were burning and he needed to 'empty' them.
Amy pictured , who did not want her surname reported, was staying at the Grand Park hotel in Heathrow on May 15 when a guard allegedly told her she was 'smoking hot'. Ms Godolphin said she complained and a representative of G4S said they would look into it. She never heard whether any action had been taken. A G4S spokesperson said: 'We expect the highest standards of conduct from our staff and we do not tolerate behaviour that undermines the good work of our teams, who continue to play an important role in the national response to the pandemic.
Amy, who did not want her surname reported, was staying at the Grand Park hotel in Heathrow on May 15 when a guard allegedly told her she was 'smoking hot'.
Janet Wheeler, who quarantined at the Delta Hotel by Marriott in Milton Keynes, claimed the first room she was given had bed bugs and as she was moved to another she was harassed.
Janet Wheeler pictured , who quarantined at the Delta Hotel by Marriott in Milton Keynes, claimed the first room she was given had bed bugs and as she was moved to another she was harassed. During the transfer of rooms she was locked out and left alone in a corridor with a guard for 20 minutes.
She said he asked if she was married, whether she was travelling alone and if she liked black men. There wasn't even anyone I could call. The hotels involved say they were not responsible for the security guards, and representatives of the Park Grand, Marriott Hotel and Radisson hotels said they took the allegations seriously.
Marriott said there were no bedbugs found in Ms Wheeler's room but it has been heat-treated. A government spokesperson said: 'Allegations of sexual assault are taken extremely seriously. The government continues to ensure every person in managed quarantine gets the assistance they need, and will support any investigation.
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Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback. In many cases, the problems reporters found, including domestic violence injunctions, arrests and police misconduct allegations, would not show up on a typical background check. But the information was available in public records.
Rios acknowledged that G4S cannot access all of the criminal history information it would like to get. The company is also implementing a program that would continually track employee arrests, she said.
Rios disputed the "characterization of 'hundreds of instances' of allegations about former G4S employees. Rios did not respond. G4S has downsized from its peak and sold several subsidiaries plagued by reports of abuse and misconduct, including juvenile detention centers. However, G4S is the largest security company in the world by number of employees and has earned more money in federal contracts than Allied and Securitas combined since It also arms a greater share of its U.
Supervisors have employed people without required security licenses, overlooked deficiencies on job applications, understaffed posts, and overworked guards for up to 16 hours a day, according to state inspections, county audits and testimony from employees. But hiring cheaper security guards to do jobs once handled by sworn law enforcement officers has proven hard to resist, especially for governments looking to cut costs.
The company manager explained in an email that such a pay cut would result in higher turnover and less qualified guards watching over the jail. G4S grew into a global force that would help reshape the private security industry by making moves the business world and investors celebrated. In , a British security company merged with a century-old night watchmen firm from Denmark to become Group 4 Falck, which later renamed itself G4S.
Guards moved cash in armored vehicles in South Africa, cleared land mines in the Middle East and provided muscle to fledgling governments in war zones. The company entered the U. And private businesses considered guards not just a visual deterrent to crime, but also a counter argument to litigant claims that they were negligent in protecting customers. The British military had to step in. Today, in the U. But the patchwork of state regulatory agencies tasked with overseeing G4S operations has not forced the company to make significant adjustments, even in the wake of serious missteps.
The company negotiated to have the fine cut in half. Mateen, who was fatally shot by police in the incident, was off duty and did not use a company weapon.
G4S was not doing business with the nightclub. After the shooting, reports revealed that Mateen had been on a terror watch list and had been questioned multiple times by the FBI. However, company officials shuffled Mateen from post to post due to problems with his co-workers and complaints from law enforcement about threatening behavior, investigations into the Pulse shooting revealed. Since the Pulse shooting, the company has won or renewed contracts with the state. Robert Bobo, a G4S vice president in Colorado, told his recruiters he looked for a certain type of job candidate.
Bobo confronted another recruiter for "hiring terrorists" because the guards were of Middle Eastern descent, according to the complaint. On paper, Robert Leiman, 25, fit the profile Bobo described.
He was white, ex-military and willing to work graveyard shifts as an armed guard at an apartment complex and various office buildings around Denver. Leiman, however, was not the ideal candidate. He had been discharged from the Army amid questions about his mental health and after threatening to kill a fellow soldier.
On Jan. His parents told him it was time to move out of their home. Instead, Leiman grabbed the. He shot his stepmother dead, shot his father in the face and then sought out his stepsister, who hid in a closet and called police. He said he was looking for reasons to hire guards, not disqualify them. Bobo, whose LinkedIn profile says he still works for G4S in a "semi-retired" capacity, did not respond to voicemails requesting an interview.
Two months before the Leiman shooting in Colorado, G4S CEO Ashley Almanza had reassured investors who voiced concerns about high-profile incidents that reflected poorly on the company's global brand. Police arrested a guard in South Florida for allegedly pimping an underage girl out of the hotel he was guarding.
Independent auditors in Arkansas detailed a litany of problems at a G4S-run detention facility, where kids said the staff bribed them with candy to beat each other up. At the same facility, one employee was fired for assaulting children and then rehired, only to do it again.
G4S in sold its interests in the juvenile detention center business. Most of the violence reporters cataloged came from those contracts. But incidents have occurred in a variety of settings in recent years. In November a pregnant guard said a coworker sexually assaulted her at the hospital where they were posted in Florida, according to a report by the state inspector general, which sustained the allegation. A G4S guard in was accused of pulling a gun during a road rage incident. Texas officials suspended another for domestic violence.
He had previously been investigated for child abuse in Florida after police said he beat his stepson at least twice — once cracking his face against a doorjamb.
The state declined to prosecute. In and , at least 65 guards — not including juvenile detention employees — were investigated for misconduct, accused of crimes or disciplined by state regulators. But chronic turnover has left the people responsible for filling empty guard posts with little choice but to hire whoever they can get, former G4S managers said in interviews, testimony and internal company complaints.
Many of the existing guards quit, and those who remained said they had to work up to 18 hours on a single shift, or hours a week. A security manager at BAE Systems, the defense contractor that hired G4S, wrote in a May email that the site was struggling to refill the positions.
McKinney said in an interview, recruiters hired guards who promised they could run a mile and do pushups. The company denied the allegations and a judge dismissed the suit in G4S handed out guns to people who had beaten their wives and committed crimes, according to McKinney, who oversaw about 70 guards. A year later, G4S sold its subsidiary that held the contract and many others with government clients. McKinney still works at the site for BAE.
In at least two states, G4S hired guards for armed posts despite histories of restraining orders and arrests for domestic violence.
A recruiter in Florida said under oath she didn't check at least one applicant's court records. She assumed it wasn't a serious charge because he had been honorably discharged from the military. In that state, nearly guards were arrested from to either before they were hired or during their tenure with the company, according to an analysis of criminal records maintained by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and guard rosters maintained by the state licensing agency.
Then he said his testicles were burning and he needed to "empty" them, she says. He stayed with me outside and I had to go back up with him. They then walk you back to your room as well. It wasn't nice at all. I put the internal bolt on, because by this time I was obviously really quite nervous.
Katherine complained and a representative of G4S said he would look into it. But she says he never got back to her to explain what action had been taken. We asked G4S to respond to the accounts given by Marie Sidwell and Katherine Godolphin and other women, but they made no specific comments. In a statement, the company said: "We expect the highest standards of conduct from our staff and we do not tolerate behaviour that undermines the good work of our teams, who continue to play an important role in the national response to the pandemic.
Two other women who told the BBC they were sexually harassed were also staying alone at hotels where guards were provided by G4S. Amy, who was staying at the Park Grand hotel in Heathrow, says that on 15 May a guard told her she was fit and "smoking hot". He asked for her telephone number and said that they should go on a date, she says, then followed her around closely while she was exercising and stationed himself outside her room when she returned - despite the fact that another guard was already on duty there.
Janet Wheeler says that the first room she was given at the Delta Hotel by Marriott in Milton Keynes had bedbugs, so she had to move to another. In the process, however, she got locked out and for 20 minutes she found herself alone in a corridor with a guard, who asked her if she was married, if she was travelling alone, and if she liked black men. There wasn't even anyone I could call. Other women told the BBC they were intimidated by guards in other ways. One said she was reduced to tears by guards who shouted at her at the Radisson Red Heathrow hotel in April.
Another said that when she complained about guards shouting at her at the Radisson Blu Stansted, they came to her room and were "intimidating" and "unnecessarily abusive". The hotels emphasised to the BBC that they were not responsible for the security guards, who were contracted by the Department of Health and Social Care.
Representatives of the Park Grand, Marriott Hotel and Radisson hotels said they took the allegations very seriously, adding either that they had urged G4S to investigate or would co-operate in any investigation. Marriott said it had heat-treated Janet Wheeler's room but found no bedbugs. Harriet Wistrich from the Centre for Women's Justice describes the allegations made by the women as "really concerning".
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