PMBlackburn published Concerns raised as private security firm could be brought in to...

Union leaders warn public services are under threat after it emerged that a private security giant has been paid to look at the costs of running police control rooms. Police chiefs from Nottinghamshire, as well as Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, have commissioned G4S to produce a "feasibility study" which will show how the company could take control of the operation. Notts's Sherwood Lodge-based control room employs around 250 people in Arnold, with staff responding to 999...