G4S resolves budget crisis issues for law enforcement

G4S of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, a provider of comprehensive security solutions, is showcasing their law enforcement support services at this year's National Sheriffs' Association (NSA) conference and exhibition show to help local agencies by providing significant costs savings for Sheriffs and taxpayers. Attendees represent law enforcement agencies from across the country, many facing an unprecedented need to slash budgets and work within limited resources. G4S aims to boost the effectiveness of such agencies by identifying security-related duties currently being performed by law enforcement personnel and then delivering a law-enforcement-caliber contract program to perform those duties. 

“Local governments are struggling in the wake of the economic recession, andunfortunately, too often law enforcement agencies feel the brunt of budget cutbacks,” said Marty Martinez, manager of business development for sheriff and police associations at G4S. “There has been no better time than now for agencies to look at ways to work smarter and to maximize the effectiveness of limited resources. At G4S we pride ourselves on partnering with local law enforcement agencies in service to the community.” 

G4S offers law enforcement support services include transporting prisoners(both local and intrastate), courthouse security, operating jails, guarding prisoners in hospitals and parking enforcement. Other G4S service offerings include providing judicial process servers, offering inmate intake services, securing inmate video and visitation centers, supplying paddy wagon services, working in juvenile assessment centers and even other less critical roles.

G4S also provides an important source of employment opportunity for former andretired law enforcement personnel, including many seeking work after losing their law enforcement jobs due to budget cutbacks, especially during these difficult economic times.

On site at the NSA Show in Anaheim, G4S will feature one of the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) fortified buses that help address illegal immigration issues at the U.S.- Mexican border under a contract with CBP. G4S's fortified buses logged 19 million miles and transported nearly one million illegal immigrants for the CBP last year, while freeing up CBP personnel.

“The benefit of our CBP buses is effectively to give CBP's staff more time to do the important work of tracking and apprehending illegal immigrants, rather than spending their valuable time transporting them long distances once they are caught,” said Kevin Johnson, vice president of government services. “It's an example of how G4S can provide support services to empower law enforcement to be more effective, even in these times of limited resources, while ensuring that security is scrupulously maintained at each step in the process.”

G4S will also display on the NSA show floor the new fortified 15- passenger transportation van used in a contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to transport illegal immigrants in urban areas.

“We are proud of the contribution G4S is making to help ICE prioritize their efforts on convicted criminal aliens in cities and counties across the United States," Johnson added “G4S provides transportation and other support services that can help any law enforcement agency  be more effective, even in these times of limited resources, while ensuring that security is never compromised.” 

In addition, the G4S booth will feature two new T3 Motion three-wheeled electric human transport vehicles.

G4S Secure Solutions USA is a provider of integrated security solutions in the U.S. With 110 offices and approximately 40,000 employees across the country, G4S offers a combination of security personnel, monitoring, tracking and response technologies to provide users with customized security solutions uniquely tailored to meet their needs.

The parent company, G4S is headquartered in the United Kingdom, is a global security solutions group specializing in the outsourcing of business processes in sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat. G4S is the largest employer quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has a secondary stock exchange listing in Copenhagen. G4S has operations in more than 110 countries and over 595,000 employees.