UK Indymedia: G4S to build and run custody suites in Lincs

A night in the cells used to be spent courtesy of the boys in blue.

But from April private contractors will be building police stations and employing the staff to run them as well.

With police forces seeking savings in the face of the government’s austerity-led budget cuts, G4S, the world’s largest security company, has won the first contract in Britain to staff and build a police station. The deal, expected to be signed within days, represents the most radical outsourcing of law enforcement to the private sector yet.