Key facts and figures
Did you know…
- We manage five UK prisons (six from April 2012), three secure training centres, two immigration centres and one pre-departure accommodation centre
- We provide security services at 14 UK airports and four ports
- Using a fleet of more than 2,300 cash vehicles, we securely transport over £300 billion a year around the UK
- Our monitoring and response centre co-ordinates 73,264 alarm callouts and 550,878 visits to customer premises a year
- We manage four children's homes
- We monitor over 14,000 offenders across the UK using electronic tags
- We secure 500 police stations and 30 custody suites
- We provide facilities management to critical Government facilities, 210 hospitals/healthcare centres and 33 schools
- We carry out over 640,000 private ambulance journeys a year
- We provide protection to thousands of convoys in Iraq
- We make over 53 million visits to UK properties a year and take 39 million meter readings for utility companies
- We visit 26,000 hotels and B&Bs a year to carry out assessments for VisitBritain
- Our ordanance management teams have destroyed over 20.6 million items of unexploded ordnance.
- Our events personnel provide security at major sporting and cultural events including Wimbledon; The Open and V-Festival.