GardaWorld Corporation is a Canadian private security firm, headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, with 120,000 employees as of January 2022.

[3] GardaWorld resumed making acquisitions, which drove its debt to $639 million, 4.2 times that of its operating profit (as of September 7, 2012).

[3] On July 13, 2015, GardaWorld announced the acquisition of Aegis Defence Services to expand in Africa and the Middle East.

[8] Rhône acquired the business in 2017, alongside Crétier and some members of management from Apax Partners, in a deal valued at $2.2 billion.

"[10][11][12][13][14][15] Based in part on a former employee's documents and data (which GardaWorld has unsuccessfully argued was stolen from the company) and then used unsuccessfully in two dismissed lawsuits [16] and 90 interviews, 56 of them being current or former drivers, the article shows that Garda trucks frequently lacked reliable brakes, seat belts and sometimes even seats.

The article also documents that drivers often received barely any training and said they were pressured to work long hours, even after repeated crashes.

[21] On August 27, it was reported that GardaWorld gathered 185 families who worked for the embassy, 1,000 people in total, in a failed attempt to evacuate them.

"[22] On March 31, 2024 (Easter Sunday), thieves stole $30 million USD from a GardaWorld cash storage facility at the 15000 block of Roxford Street in Sylmar, California.

[26] The burglars entered through the roof, and cracked open a safe inside, before cutting a hole in the side of the building and leaving without anyone knowing what happened.

[29] Former L.A. county sheriff Jim McDonnell said: "To be able to get in undetected, to be able to get into an internal safe, to be able to remove that much property requires some knowledge of the alarm system, the layout of the place, the camera surveillance equipment.