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Saturday Apr 26

Firm could not deliver enough guards for Metro

“The training of personnel. The certification. Licensing of personnel. Nothing deliberate. It was just a matter of logistics and timing. We thought that we had laid out a very specific, step-by-step game plan. There was some dispute about that.”

Leaders of the Metro public transportation agency said Friday that a Florida-based security firm was not able to deliver enough trained security guards to meet deadlines in a MetroLink security contract. via STLtoday

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