The Port Authority awarded a four-year, $221 million contract to a new airport security service, replacing guards from a troubled firm caught sleeping on the job, officials said yesterday.
Allied Barton Security Services won the bid to employ 600 unarmed guards at JFK, La Guardia and Newark, beginning Sept. 1.
Allied will take the place of FJC Security, which was beset by a series of embarrassing security lapses. The FJC contract was supposed to last until January 2015, but the Port Authority forced the deal’s cancellation in response to the highly publicized incidents, an agency source said.
The Post recently reported that FJC Security guards were caught dozing on duty at JFK.
Also, an FJC security guard was busted in March for allegedly smoking pot on duty at the George Washington Bridge.
In May 2012, Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole — a 54-year-old FJC security supervisor at Newark Airport — was busted because he was an illegal immigrant from Nigeria, officials said.
He had been allegedly working for 20 years under the alias “Jerry Thomas,” a man murdered in New York City in 1992.