Don’t expect to see any weapons complex protective force officers at the London Summer Olympics. Despite embarrassing revelations that London security contractor G4S won’t be able to provide the allotment of guards it promised for the summer games, John Burleson, the Senior Vice President and Executive General Manager of Department of Energy Operations for G4S-Government Solutions, said that G4S-GS hasn’t been asked to provide guards for the Olympics and isn’t expecting to be asked. G4S-GS has been a longtime subsidiary of G4S and until recently was known as WSI and Wackenhut Services. Because of the G4S-GS’s work for the U.S. government, great pains are taken to keep the companies as separate as possible. “G4S Government Solutions has not been asked to participate, we don’t anticipate that we’re going to be asked to participate, and we do have a firewall between the companies that we’re very intent on keeping in place,” Burleson said. If G4S was to seek help from its U.S. government contracting business, Burleson said the request would have to be approved by G4S-GS’s Board of Directors, and he said that the company would seek approval from the Department of Energy to use any guards. That occurred in 2009, when the company assembled a contingency force to support the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, but Burleson emphasized that weapons complex guards would not be called into support the Olympics.
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