Protective Services

There is an ever-increasing requirement for companies to operate in high-risk environments for commercial, foreign policy or development reasons; the effective management of those risks has become a fundamental requirement in business planning. The complexities of today’s security risks create a diverse matrix of interrelated threats, vulnerabilities, and impacts, and require a highly developed professional approach to risk mitigation and protection.

Sallyport provides global turnkey security services to a wide variety of clients, who require protection against threats to their assets, equities, information and structures. It has been performing security missions in Iraq, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa since 2003, and has had no significant breaches of security on any of the sites on which it protects, or to any convoy or client that it has been protecting. In Iraq alone, Sallyport has conducted over 18,000 mobile security missions without loss of life to clients, Sallyport personnel, or Iraqi citizens. This performance, given the challenging operational environments Sallyport works in, is extra-ordinary, and something that it is justly proud.

Sallyport has over 1,900 employees from 11 different countries, across more than 30 different specialty areas. It has a footprint in South Africa, Southern Sudan, Djibouti, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. This unique global reach and robust capability, allows Sallyport to deploy any number of static guards or fully experienced and equipped security personnel onto the ground within 30 days, worldwide; complete with monitoring and management services, life support, equipment, vehicles, and appropriate intelligence/threat analyses. This can be done in isolation, or as part of a bespoke contingency support package.

Sallyport’s security specialists largely come from American, South African and European military, police and intelligence backgrounds, and provide excellent management, technical advice, and on-the-ground expertise. Their experience in austere and high-threat environments, and their sensitivity to local culture and politics, gives clients the confidence to pursue their mission, knowing that their personnel and assets have the best possible protection.

Depending upon the mission, Sallyport also employs third country and local national static security guards to protect clients’ venues in the countries in which they operate. Every member of the Sallyport’s guard force is vetted by their own national government, further scrutinized by Sallyport, and then enrolled its own specialist security training scheme. This assures that all personnel are reputable, responsible, well trained, and work to the same professional and ethical standards.

In Iraq, Sallyport maintains a fully operational logistics and security operations center, managed by retired US Forces personnel. The center monitors and controls all operational activities around the clock, seven days a week. It utilizes multiple methods of communications, such as: Inmarsat, Thuraya, and VHF, and various tracking systems for moving entities. Sallyport’s intelligence department provides threat assessment and risk analysis on all areas of the operation, client workplaces, travel schedules, individuals, and prospective venues identified for permanent or semi-permanent occupation. The personnel at the center maintain good communications with Coalition resources, the US Embassy, and local Iraqi units, coordinating and sharing intelligence as required.

SALLYPORT PROTECTIVE SERVICES:

Physical security services

  • Close Protection: Protecting an individual or group of individuals against assault, kidnapping, assassination, stalking, terrorist attack or other threats.
  • Facilities Protection: Physical security measures designed to safeguard people; to prevent unauthorized access to equipment, facilities, material, and documents; and to safeguard them against a security incident.

Security consulting services

  • Site Surveys: Critical, on-site examination to ascertain the present security status, identify deficiencies or excesses, determine the protection needed, and make recommendations to improve the overall security of the operation.
  • Security Systems Design: Designing integrated physical protection systems in conjunction with the integrators, installers, and salespeople whose companies manufacture or distribute physical security products.
  • Regional or Country-Wide Risk and Threat Assessments: The process of identifying internal and external threats and vulnerabilities, identifying the likelihood of an event arising from such threats or vulnerabilities, defining the critical functions necessary to continue an organization’s operations, defining the controls in place or necessary to reduce exposure, and evaluating the cost for such controls.
  • Business Continuity Planning: A comprehensive managed effort to prioritize key business processes, identify significant threats to normal operation, and plan mitigation strategies to ensure effective and efficient organizational response to the challenges that surface during and after a crisis.
  • Crisis Management: Intervention and coordination by individuals or teams before, during, and after an event to resolve the crisis, minimize loss, and otherwise protect the organization.
  • Evacuation Planning: Preparing for the immediate and rapid movement of people away from a hostile environment, threat or actual occurrence of a hazard.

Investigations & data analysis

  • Background Investigations: An inquiry into the history and behaviors of an individual under consideration for employment, credit, access to sensitive assets.
  • Due Diligence: An investigation or audit of a potential investment, which serves to confirm all material facts in regards to a sale.
  • Investigative and Forensic Services: A practice of lawfully establishing evidence and facts that is to be presented in a court of law.
  • Data Mining & Analysis: Utilizing Computer Assisted Auditing Tools and Techniques to search large databases and extract information and patterns that can be translated into useful applications such as detection of suspicious activity and hidden relationships.

Training programs

  • Personal Security Detail
  • Hostile Environment Survival
  • Hostage Survival
  • First Responder & First Aid
  • Defensive Driver Techniques
  • Disaster Preparedness
  • Client and Equipment Recovery Systems

SALLYPORT PROTECTIVE SERVICES OPERATIONS

  • In Iraq, Sallyport is the industry leader supporting USAID projects in this highly complex and dangerous operating environment. It currently provides security services for over 75% of the implementing partners working on behalf of USAID in Iraq. Under contract to the Louis Berger Group, Sallyport provides turn-key security solutions to facilitate the following USAID programmes: Vocational Training and Employment Services Project, Private Sector Growth and Employment Generation Program, Imma Agribusiness Development Program, the National Capacity Development Programme, and many others.
  • In Iraq Sallyport significant numbers of static security guards, and PSD teams to 21 key project sites in Iraq, including the six ‘Enduring Bases’ from North to South: Al Asad; COB Speicher; Joint Base Balad; Victory Base Complex; Camp Taji; and COB Adder Talil.
  • In Iraq, Sallyport employs staff at all three major commercial Iraqi air hubs: Erbil Airport; Baghdad International Airport; and Basrah International Airport.
  • In Iraq, Sallyport has provided security services to the US Department of State Contract in support of its technical assistance to the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, and it’s Iraq Cultural Heritage Program.