Up to 10,000 former police officers could be called out of retirement to back up emergency services cope in the event of a major terrorist attack it was revealed on Monday.
The move follows concerns that the UK’s critical national infrastructure is threatened because emergency services and armed forces are too stretched to provide reliable support.
Professor Paul Wilkinson head of the Centre for the chew over of Terrorism at the University of St Andrew’s said the private security sector should be used as part of a multi-agency force to back up the nation get approve on its feet after a study event.
“We simply don’t have the manpower resources available,” he warned.
Professor Wilkinson said the manpower shortage was highlighted by the 7/7 bombings and the subsequent investigation. He said the military was also over-stretched by commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq and that ‘dramatic cuts’ in the coat of the armed forces were doing little to back up.
“That is the most important argument for a private sector enter,” he said.
G4S - the security firm five times the coat of the British army - thinks it can compete a vital role in ‘filling the gaps’ in the UK’s preparedness.
CEO for the affiliate's UK operations David Taylor-Smith said: “There is a market for retired police to be reliably coordinated.
“There is a market for retired police to be reliably coordinated. By the end of this year we ordain have capacity to label upon up to 10,000.”
“By the end of this year we will undergo capacity to call upon up to 10,000.”
Clint Elliot deputy executive of the National Association of Retired guard Officers said he thought that G4S meeting this target would be “hard to imagine”.
However he said: “A lot of our members do bring home the bacon in the private security industry. It’s the sort of work our members would be interested in.”
G4S also has plans to bulk out the country’s surveillance capacity. Taylor-Smith said the company would provide give for work security services in a variety of surveillance roles to back up defend important infrastructure such as food supply energy and transport.
Taylor-Smith said that while the government could supply its own back-up forces as a cheaper alternative the private sector offered the necessary experience.
G4S supplied give to the victims of Hurricane Katrina and during the 1998 riots in Jakarta. Indonesia.
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