United Kingdom

Health Services Devon & Cornwall Custody Team win inaugural prestigious award

G4S custody team wins award for ground-breaking support for vulnerable patients

G4S partners with OneBanks in shared branch banking venture

G4S, the UK’s leader in secure cash management, is partnering with OneBanks, the shared branch banking innovator, to enable banking customers to pay bills, deposit and withdraw notes and coins at OneBanks shared banking kiosks, currently being trialed in the UK. 

Restarting Cash: Giving customers the choice of how they pay

As coronavirus restrictions in the UK are steadily lifted and people and businesses try to return to normality with face-to-face transactions, it is evident that many people still prefer to pay with cash when they have the choice. The G4S Cash Solutions team have been working hard up and down the country to meet the increasing demand again in the cash cycle.

G4S chosen to support over 100,000 people to find work

G4S has been chosen as the provider in the North-West of England to deliver the UK Government’s Restart Scheme, which gives long-term unemployed people important support to help them get back into work.

New fleet of electric vehicles to protect the environment

G4S cash vehicles make thousands of essential journeys in the UK every year to keep cash moving between people, businesses and banks. Now, an investment in clean electric vehicles will help to reduce the impact of these necessary journeys on the environment. 

Safe return of events: Covid-19 is not the only threat

G4S event security experts explain what threats and challenges event organisers will have to consider as Covid-19 restrictions lift in the UK.

The community recruitment strategy behind G4S's COVID-19 testing site rollout

As part of the UK government’s COVID-19 testing plan, G4S has set up dozens of testing sites. How is a concerted effort to hire locals at each site helping make testing friendlier, safer and more effective?  

Protests, theft and lone working biggest security threats to Utilities in 2021

Steve Frost, Integrated Solution Specialist from G4S Academy, UK and Ireland, discusses the security threats that utilities companies should prepare for in 2021

G4S Pay Shortlisted for ACS Technology Showcase

The recently launched cash, card and digital payment solution G4S Pay has been shortlisted by the Association of Convenience Stores to be presented at their Technology Showcase in February. 

G4S will be UK’s first major cash services provider to arrange card and digital payment solutions

Businesses in the UK will be able to streamline their cash flow and efficiently manage their payments through G4S, as G4S Cash Solutions launches G4S Pay and becomes the first major UK cash company to be able to arrange cash, card and digital payment solutions.

The integrated security solution that keeps G4S one step ahead

The latest technology will always rely on humans. Here, security expert Noah Price describes how the perfect combination of expertise, security professionals, technology and data analytics achieves the ultimate integrated solution.

G4S wins 10-year UK contract to run the new HM Prison Five Wells

G4S announces that, following a competitive tender, its UK Care and Rehabilitation business has won a 10-year contract to operate the new HM Prison Five Wells in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, UK.

Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier’s workforce protected by all-purpose Emergency Response Team

HMS Queen Elizabeth (QNLZ) and HMS Prince of Wales (PWLS), the largest warships ever built for the Royal Navy, were constructed by thousands of people at Babcock’s secure site in Rosyth, north of Edinburgh. A team of specialist security officers trained to fight fires, deliver first aid, navigate confined spaces and rescue at height, protected workers throughout the assembly and commissioning phases.

retail Cash Solutions

G4S has today published an online presentation on its market-leading Retail Cash Solutions (RCS) business. Watch our video to find out more. 

G4S CARE AND JUSTICE SERVICES (UK) LIMITED AGREES DEFERRED PROSECUTION AGREEMENT WITH UK SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE

G4S plc (“G4S” or the “Company”) announces that, in relation to the UK Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) investigation initiated in 2013, its subsidiary G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Limited (“G4SCJ”) has agreed a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (“DPA”) with the SFO. 

Discreet security for COVID-19 ventilator testers

To support the fight against Covid-19, Penlon ESO2 ventilators are produced on a mass scale by major manufacturing companies across the UK. G4S rose to the challenge of securing the quality assurance centres that could otherwise have been a fatal bottleneck in the supply of this vital piece of medical equipment   

COVID-19 testing centres set up in days in rapid response to pandemic

Testing sites have been set up all over the UK to manage and combat coronavirus. How has G4S been involved on the frontline of a global pandemic? 

Securing the COVID-19 fightback at NHS Nightingale

As the coronavirus threat grew in the UK in late March 2020, the government commissioned a new hospital, NHS Nightingale, to be constructed in London to increase NHS capacity. Security was essential, and within days G4S was on site with a scalable technology-enabled access solution to keep doctors, nurses, patients and other essential staff safe. Chris Burr led the deployment and recalls those hectic first few days…

"Outstanding" leadership in high performing Patient Transport Service

G4S's Patient Transport Service in London has received the highest possible rating from the industry regulator for being well-led. 

ESTA: No risk of contamination with Covid-19 on banknotes

ESTA, The Cash Management Companies Association, has issued the following statement.

Inspectors find HMP Parc “bucks the trend” with reductions in violence  

An inspection report published today has found that levels of safety have improved at G4S-managed HM Prison Parc

Inspectors say HMYOI Parc is “easily the best performing YOI in England and Wales” 

In a report published by HM Inspectorate of Prisons, the Chief Inspector Peter Clarke said HMYOI Parc includes practices and procedures that are far better than other YOIs. 

Natwest and G4S announce intelligent safe

NatWest has launched Intelligent Safe, an innovative cash management system developed in partnership with G4S that will allow businesses to deposit cash without visiting the bank.

Powerful protection: G4S’s Enhanced Security Officers

The elite training and education behind the men and women keeping thousands of workers safe at Hinkley Point C, the first nuclear power station to be built in the UK in a generation.