Sentence examples for contracted guards from inspiring English sources

The government's scramble to deploy thousands of extra troops, after G4S admitted last week that it would be able to supply barely half of the 10,400 contracted guards, is palpable in the Olympic Park.

At the Broad, the VSAs will be the most prominent eyes and ears — and mouths — but they'll be augmented by smaller staffs of security managers who'll be clad in suits and ties, and by contracted guards in police-like blue uniforms, whose duties will include manning a garage-level security station where monitors take feeds from dozens of cameras inside and outside the museum.

G4S made headlines after it failed to provide all of its contracted security guards for the London 2012 Olympics, prompting extra military personnel to be called in to fill the gap and leaving the firm with losses of £88m.

At least some, if not many, of these assaults are being perpetrated by ICE officers, contracted facility guards, and even medical professionals.

"Omar Mateen was one of multiple contracted security guards that rotated through the St. Lucie County Courthouse as part of a contract with G4S Secure Solutions USA Inc. "In early 2013, our staff was made aware of inflammatory comments made by Mateen.

The school's argument is that contract guards are there to supplement, not supplant, the current workers.

Inside the compound, the State Department is in charge, relying on a mix of diplomatic security officers, local contract guards and Marines.

One of the R.S.P.B. contract guards living at the site took a more practical view: "If it weren't for the collectors, I'd be out of a job".

Abuse has been heaped not just on the firm but on the whole business of government outsourcing.G4S, which has annual revenues of about £1 billion from public-service contracts, guards things as varied as banks and oilfields.

Parts of the letter, which also said that union guards receive year-round training and are subject to rigorous background checks while contract guards need only the state-required eight hours of training, were distributed at a campus demonstration on parents' weekend.

The reliance on armed "but poorly skilled" local militiamen and contract guards was "misplaced," the report said.