Tagging firms in overcharging investigation

[Nidge41]

Weren't G4S on a programme a few years ago where, they were ignoring the Tag Alarms saying "the equipment was faulty"?

Disgraced firm Serco has agreed to repay the Government £68.5m for overcharging for tagging criminals, the Justice Secretary said.

The Government has already rejected a £24m offer from G4S, which came under fire for its poor handling of the Olympics security contract, and officials vowed to "pursue all possible avenues" to recoup more taxpayers' cash.

As revealed by Sky News City Editor Mark Kleinman on Wednesday, both G4S and Serco have also been banned from bidding for lucrative Whitehall contracts following a cross-Government probe

http://news.sky.com/story/1184705/cr...-5m-overcharge

Does this mean that government oversight of these outsourced service contracts has or will be improved in the future

[Osem]

It probably means those responsible for that have been promoted... Grrr!!!....

As Derek so elooquently put it nothing new here been going on for a while and quite a few people were aware of it and did sweet FA. Whilst i may not always accept what the police say i do accept 99% of the time they act in the public interest. I will never trust private companys to act in the public interest rather then their shareholders interests. Capatilism is great but like all systems it has it's limits and this headlong rush to privatise more and more aspects of many areas always on the promise of savings always seems to end up costing us more and involves dodgy dealings. How stupid are we that were not learning and still allowing the same old tired rubbish to be trotted out anytime some politician usually with a vested interest implements things like this.