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Subscribe to RSSLONDON -- Security checks of vehicles entering Olympic sites in the U.K. have not been properly carried out, according to a number of staff, ITV News reported Wednesday.
The unnamed staff claimed that in some cases fake searches of vehicles for bombs were carried out using dogs that had not been trained to detect explosives.
The company involved, G4S, denied the claims and ITV News reported that some of the staff who spoke to them had been sacked.
The U.K. news station said the “key claims” were that:
- Cargo areas of trucks and vans have not been adequately searched by either dogs, scanners or other security teams.
- In some instances, dogs that were not trained to find explosives were used to carry out fake searches of vehicles.
- Some assessments of dogs and handlers have been faked.
Ian Horseman Sewell, G4S’s managing director of global events, told ITV News the allegations were not true.
"At no point is there any evidence that dogs that have been trained to detect substances other than explosives have been used to try to detect explosives,” he said.
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The security operation at the Olympics will be the largest carried out in Britain in peacetime, ITV news said.
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my experience with G4S security occurred at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne Florida. My Wife was hospitalized there for heart and fall damage, I also was hospitalized there for a heart attack and ischemia at the same time one floor directly above her, they confiscated my laptop, cell phone, ripped the patient phones from the walls, and forbade me from visiting my wife and I am her designated health care surrogate as she is a stroke patient with memory and aphasia issues. Then upon my release, G4S called the police, had me trespassed from the property, accused me of pissing in the hallways, and on the one time I was given permission to visit my wife by my charge nurse, I went down to her floor and was literally tackled by their agent and prevented from visiting her.... to this day I am trespassed from this hospital and my wife has to return for life saving and dangerous surgery, yet I will not be permitted to attend, visit her, or care for her by her bedside
its ok the CIA is al qaeda and they have missiles on roof tops. what a joke.
Olympics security checks and so on are not that important right now!
Off the radar!
Her Majesty, Queen should be well guarded and the major problems of the world are in Syria and Iran.
On the radar!
All the checks should be in Syria and Iran!
Checks can be freely written to Syria and Iran interventions too! Conditions of British are not that important either.
British Olympic security ran several tests to see if they could breach their own security systems. All attempts were successful -- security was breached easily -- so the Brits chose to publish what they did and HOW TO BREACH THEIR SECURITY ONLINE! US citizens should stay away from the Olympics, because there will inevitably be some incident at some event. No secrecy involved here. Make it all available online so everyone knows where the flaws in the system are.