Wackenhut Security has been the security company doing security for years for the Miami-Dade Transit system. They been doing the security for 20 years. They been making $17 million a year.
I been reading about over billing for years and amounts that run from $6 to $3 million.
It appears that a new company has the contract.
Last Sunday Chevor Wint a security officer with Security Alliance was shot and killed at work by two men. I think he was doing security for the transit system. He was killed the Metrorail’s Earlington Heights station.
Miami-Dade moves to replace firm providing transit security
“…The county manager is recommending that 50 State Security provide armed officers at all Metrorail and Metromover stations. A joint venture combining Professional Protection and Investigations Inc. and Security Alliance is also proposed to provide unarmed guards at all bus and rail maintenance facilities.Separately, Allied Barton Security Services is recommended to take over security at the county's Juvenile Services Department, a job held by Wackenhut since 1998.
The proposals are scheduled to go before the Budget, Planning and Sustainability Committee on May 12 and the County Commission on June 2.
But even if commissioners agree to remove Wackenhut, the security firm may not go before its contract expires in November. The reason: Burgess said a transition to new security firms will take at least three months.
''It doesn't just happen overnight,'' he said…”
My God, does this story, in the Miami Herald, mean that not only was the guard killed brand new to working transit security but that he was not armed?
