15 apr 2012
LONDON: A security firm hired to deport asylum seekers and prisoners from the UK has admitted that its guards demonstrated a lack of respect for ethnic minorities and women and displayed "aggressive" and "loutish" behaviour in an internal note leaked to the Guardian newspaper.
Nepalese asylum seeker Govinda Pokharel claimed that guards of the firm - Reliance - thrashed him during an attempt to evict him, his pregnant wife, Jamuna Rijal, and their fourmonth-old child last year.
But Reliance that won British home ministry's lucrative contract for the purpose in May 2011 dismissed Pokharel's allegations as "unsubstantiated" .
"Is there actually a problem with our business? The consensus was: yes. Is this a company where women, ethnic minorities and those of diverse religions feel comfortable? Evidence would suggest: no," the firm said in the note.
But the company is now reviewing and amending its recruitment process to encourage more applications from women and those from minority cultural backgrounds.'
Pvt British guards illtreated minorities’
Nepalese asylum seeker Govinda Pokharel claimed that guards of the firm - Reliance - thrashed him during an attempt to evict him, his pregnant wife, Jamuna Rijal, and their fourmonth-old child last year.
But Reliance that won British home ministry's lucrative contract for the purpose in May 2011 dismissed Pokharel's allegations as "unsubstantiated" .
"Is there actually a problem with our business? The consensus was: yes. Is this a company where women, ethnic minorities and those of diverse religions feel comfortable? Evidence would suggest: no," the firm said in the note.
But the company is now reviewing and amending its recruitment process to encourage more applications from women and those from minority cultural backgrounds.'
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