The origins of the Wackenhut Corporation date back to 1954, when George Wackenhut co-founded Special Agent Investigators with other former FBI agents. Wackenhut went on to buy out the partners and renamed the company in 1958 as Wackenhut Corporation. In 2002, the company was purchased by Group 4 Falck, a Denmark-based firm that later renamed itself as G4S Wackenhut. In 2010, is an effort to rebrand itself, Wackenhut changed its name to G4S Secure Solutions