G4S have many divisions, from other companies that they have taken over. To quote this isolated incident regarding the division that provides stewarding facilities in a cricketing context, when security for the Indian cricket team is paramount, where no ID was shown, is meaningless. As usual, the BBC see fit to provide sensationalism mixed with sarcasm as a story line. The David Lloyd who played for both Lancashire and England does not resemble his current facial visage in any way whatsoever. If he was on media reporting duties, he would have been issued with the correct media pass,
G4S had three of their operatives killed recently whilst acting in a security position in the recent suicide bombing of an embassy that was reported in the media in somewhat different terms to the one that your link to a BBC news web site shows.
There is a division of G4S that specifically employs Gurkha soldiers who have completed their service term in special protection duties for diplomats that receives very little media comment, but does not mean that these ex-soldiers are any less professional than they were when in their military service.
