Exhibit (a)(7)(i)

                        Press Release from Securitas AB
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                                                        August 20, 2000


Securitas Acquisition of Burns:

Waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act expired
August 19, 2000



     The waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act
     of 1976 expired August 19, 2000 with regard to the pending cash tender
     offer by Securitas Acquisition Corporation to purchase all of the
     outstanding common stock of Burns International Services Corporation at a
     price of $21.50 per share.  The expiration of this waiting period satisfies
     one of the conditions to closing the offer.  The offer is currently
     scheduled to expire September 1, 2000.



Further information may be obtained from Hakan Winberg, Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer or Camilla Weiner, Manager Investor Relations,
phone: +46 8 657 74 00.