Council tax goes to paying for the local police forces who are, seemingly there to assist G4S while others suffer. What is the deal between the law and G4S? anyone? I'm not niave enough to believe the law is actually 'accountable to the public'
Pic one is Camberwell SE London & two is Walworth Rd. Southwark council are doing all they can to stop pavement cycling - got to make sure G4S have somewhere to park and block traffic signals

Heart warming stuff

G4S is what policing will look like in the coming years, it needs to be confronted and attacked every step of the way. From private prisons, private armies and now private police, the agenda of the free market has never been so entwined with the agenda of the state and government.

Raise their profile, rase them to the ground, keep it up!

Keep up the good work. Companies & organisations like Serco & G4S deserve everything they get...

I agree that the privatisation of the police power is a genuine and realistic worry - one only need to see the number of "custodial services" vehicles on the road to demonstrate that there is a real corporate benefit to increased incarceration and anti-asylum sentiment. Neoliberal attacks on the poor in general also serve (intentionally or otherwise) this private sector segment by promoting the root causes of crime (disenfranchisement, broken communities, boredom and a sense of helplessness).

However I am not convinced that G4S "pride themselves on doing evil" - the problem is that they don't think too hard about what they are doing, and they are of course beholden to their shareholders (as Joel Bakan says in his book on "The Corporation", a corporation that stops for moral reflection will kick its CEO out immediately). The problem is the system and, of course, the lazy support the system receives (drivers will say "I need this job to support my family"). That having been said, targetting the very symbols of a company that refuses to consider the social ramifications of its work may be an effective component of challenging the status quo.

We must remember though that the only way we are going to win this fight is by educating people about the effect that "profiteering from prisons" has on society generally. To that end, how's about your campaign group also affix some printed posters to all sides of targetted vans explaining your actions? This will set up the right questions in the minds of workers, and in the minds of police called to incidents, about what is wrong with the situation. They may well ignore this information, of course, but at least it might help them start on their necessary mindset shift.