Supplementary memorandum from Dr Denis
MacShane, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and
Commonwealth Office
I write following our recent correspondence
on the Private Military Companies Green Paper. I promised to forward
more examples of contracts which the FCO has for security guards
and security management services for Posts. A selection of these
is enclosed for Africa and South America.
I also enclose a note of the Birmingham seminar
held on 24 June which revealed a wide range of views including:
a ban on direct participation in hostilities abroad by individuals
and companies; combined licensing of companies, their scope of
operation and individual contracts entered into; company registration
and self-regulation. The problem of defining actors and activities
was a recurring theme.
As you know, the Green Paper consultation period
runs until 12 August. My officials will be evaluating responses
received and putting forward an analysis and proposals to me in
the autumn.
I look forward to receiving your Committee's
report, which I understand may be published by the end of the
month.
Dr Denis MacShane
18 July 2002
FURTHER EXAMPLES OF COMPANIES CONTRACTED
BY FCO POSTS
| Post | Company name
| Cost per annum (£)
|
| Caracas | Guardipro
| 18,000 |
| | Wackenhut
| 25,000 |
| Lima | Furza SA
| 13,200 |
| Guatemala City | Wackenhut Guatemala SA
| 44,400 |
| Abidjan | SPS
| 49,563 |
| Abuja | Prudential Guards
| 275,000 |
| Kaduna |
| 15,000 |
| Bamako | AMM
| 9,540 |
| Cape Town CG | ADT Security Guarding (Pty) Ltd/Secureco (pty) Ltd
| 13,700/29,509 |
| Harare | Securitas/Timesecurity
| 56,517 |
| Kampala | Armour Group/APS Guards
| 188,952 |
| Lagos (and Ibadan, Port Harcourt) | DSL (part of Armourgroup)
| 677,932 |
| Luanda | Copeba
| 113,705 |
| Maseru | Security Unlimited
| 31,000 |
| Nairobi | Securicor Guarding
| 185,000 |
| Port Louis | Securicor
| 30,285 |
| Victoria | Pilgrim's Security
| 35,000 |
| Yaounde | Wackenhut
| 5,080 |
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