The contract company would bid on the contract and the lowest bidder would get the contract. In a couple of years the contract would come up again and often one of the other guard services would bid less and get the contract.
What took place most of the time is the guard working for the one company would just quit and go to work for the other company that got the contract. So it would be new company and same guards.
The contract guards got higher pay because the government as part of the contract said that a certain percent of the money had to go to the officers.
The guard company would say that they gave their guards training but in fact they gave none. I know I worked for years for them as a second job on my days off from my full time job. I worked for Burns, Pinkerton, Well-Fargo and many others. I also owned stock in a couple of them and I would see their report to stockholders and they would show photos and stacks of books and videos that they said they gave to employees as training. It never happened. One company showed me a 15 minute slide show one time and that was it.
This may be more information than you want…smile
Well there was was bombings of federal building back in the 60s or 70s. So the federal government decided that they needed better security. So they started up Federal Protective Service (FPS). I was one of the first to take the test and I passed and was on the waiting list. I never took a job because I could not afford to work as a GS4 or GS5. (I think that was an error on my part I should have taken the job they offered me. Just like when I quit the post office that was not a smart thing. You live and learn.)
So they trained FPS officers and hired them in and started having them guard the federal buildings.
Republicans in congress started to shit their pants. It was more federal employees and on top of the a “Federal Police Officers.” So it was political and there was freeze on hiring and things like that due to the Republicans.
Then after a few years I read in the newspaper that their had not been any federal office building bombings and no problems so they were going to do away with the FPS. I know, it does not make any sense and was stupid.
I found out later that what they did was just use what few FPS officers they had as supervisors over contract guards.
It appears now that all that training that FPS got was not training on how to supervisor or check on contact guards.
It looks like we have returned to the days when I took the test and wanted to get hired in to the FPS.
Right now we have 1,200 FPS officers. It looks like we have 13,000 guards from private corporations. Why not just have 14,200 FPS officers? They would be well trained and they would have a good job and pretty good pay. It seems to me that would be good for them, good for the government and good for the nation.
I am sure the Republicans have not changed their stand one inch. They would still yell about hiring government employees. They would still try and scare you by saying that it was Obama’s (black) Federal Police force. Most of them would not say “black” they would just sort of let the right wing do that for them in emails and tea-ball meetings.
Well there was was bombings of federal building back in the 60s or 70s. So the federal government decided that they needed better security. So they started up Federal Protective Service (FPS). I was one of the first to take the test and I passed and was on the waiting list. I never took a job because I could not afford to work as a GS4 or GS5. (I think that was an error on my part I should have taken the job they offered me. Just like when I quit the post office that was not a smart thing. You live and learn.)
So they trained FPS officers and hired them in and started having them guard the federal buildings.
Republicans in congress started to shit their pants. It was more federal employees and on top of the a “Federal Police Officers.” So it was political and there was freeze on hiring and things like that due to the Republicans.
Then after a few years I read in the newspaper that their had not been any federal office building bombings and no problems so they were going to do away with the FPS. I know, it does not make any sense and was stupid.
I found out later that what they did was just use what few FPS officers they had as supervisors over contract guards.
It appears now that all that training that FPS got was not training on how to supervisor or check on contact guards.
It looks like we have returned to the days when I took the test and wanted to get hired in to the FPS.
Right now we have 1,200 FPS officers. It looks like we have 13,000 guards from private corporations. Why not just have 14,200 FPS officers? They would be well trained and they would have a good job and pretty good pay. It seems to me that would be good for them, good for the government and good for the nation.
I am sure the Republicans have not changed their stand one inch. They would still yell about hiring government employees. They would still try and scare you by saying that it was Obama’s (black) Federal Police force. Most of them would not say “black” they would just sort of let the right wing do that for them in emails and tea-ball meetings.
