FSS have project managed the renovation of a disused compound within a Nigerian Army cantonment to provide secure first-class living accommodation complete with all amenities (laundry, WiFi, Sat TV, catering, cleaning services etc.) and full life support to a group of technicians involved in a technical training program for the Nigerian Army.
FSS received the highest security clearances from both the US State Department and Nigerian Ministry of Interior to deliver this project.
Security service provision has been sub contracted to our Nigerian partner ASCo Security (Nigeria’s oldest established and one of the largest Nigerian security companies) which includes B6 armoured vehicles, security drivers, LN CPOs and for off-base excursions armed MOPOL escort.
In 2018 FSS Group secured a significant contract in Afghanistan, to provide full life support and secure transportation / PSD protection services to 52 Client staff of this major US defence manufacturer.
FSS provided a fleet of secure B6 armoured vehicles, armed International and local national PSD operators and drivers; including veteran Gurkhas’. Provision of secure client accommodation and all life support off base near to ‘Abbey Gate,’ as well as risk management, intelligence monitoring, an EEP and local support staff.
The project ran successfully with no serious loss or fatality incidents for its duration until the American military withdrawal in August 2021
In 2017 FSS secured a services support contract with Leo Lithium an ASX listed mining company opening the first Lithium mine in Mali. FSS completed pre construction risk and vulnerability, K&R, and medical risk assessments. FSS is contracted to provide site medical services including a fully equipped containerised site clinic, expatriate doctors and ACLS and ATLS paramedics, as well as local national doctors, nurses and ambulance technicians.
FSS also provides subject matter expert security consultancy, secure transportation, close protection, static guards, armed escorts (through the BSI Special Police Unit) and other project support services such as visa services, tracking, open source intelligence monitoring and wider risk management services.
From 2014 FSS had been providing a mixed residential and mobile executive protection team of international male and female officers to the family of one of the wealthiest business families known in India. The mobile team accompanied various family members on all overseas business excursions. In 2016 one of the eldest sons attended the University of SOAS London to complete a 1 year PhD degree top up.
FSS provided a former Metropolitan Police advanced offensive and defensive driver who had formerly served in the Diplomatic Protection Squad (SO6) and an in-house highly experienced former Royal Marine combat veteran who was SIA licensed and qualified who had been trained in Executive Protection and Paramedic Skills in South Africa.
The team resided in a local hotel near to the Principals Residence at Mayfair for the year and managed all aspects of the Principals security.
In 2016 FSS signed a master global services agreement with Nomura International PLC a principal member of the Japanese banking group Nomura, one of the most notable global financial corporations in the industry.
The requirement has been to provide ‘Ad Hoc’ executive protection and secure transportation services, to the businesses C-Suite executives during business trips to their operations in frontier markets.
Over 120 separate C-Suite services have been delivered mostly in South Africa, and Nigeria but other deliveries have included Brazil, Ghana, Mexico, Mozambique, and the Philippines. In addition, FSS have also completed event security plans, security infrastructure audits, security surveys and emergency evacuation plans for our highly esteemed Client.
In 2013 FSS secured a significant contract in support of international mining construction client DRA Global at the ‘New Liberty’ mine site in Bong county Liberia up to ‘Turnkey’ for Aureus PLC a London SX listed gold miner.
FSS provided medical and life support services. Including the provision of a Site Medical Clinic, 2 x ambulances equipped to UK ACLS and ATLS standards, 2 x expatriate doctors, 3 x expatriate paramedics on rotation plus 3 x LN Nurses and 3 x LN ambulance drivers trained to BLS standard for the three years construction phase.
Primary medical services at the mine site were provided including procurement of Ebola IPE, in house Ebola decontamination teams were trained and establishment of an Ebola isolation facility at site for the LN workforce were set up. (3 cases occurred) plus set up of Ebola screening points on site access roads. The resident population peaked during construction at more than 1,500 expatriate and LN staff and workers.
In 2011 FSS Group secured a major contract in support of a state/private owned potash mining project. The requirement was to provide a wide range of services including Guard Forces and Training, Security Operations Room staffing and Monitoring, Armed Patrolling, and for the C-Suite executive team, Close Protection, Residential Security, Armed Response Callout and Emergency Evacuation Services in Amman, Safi and Aqaba.
FSS delivered the guard force training utilising in-house qualified trainers and initially trained 56 security officers and 16 site security managers and supervisors to provide the 24-hour Guarding, Mobile Patrol, Quick Reaction and Protective Services at the 3 x Client sites located across the country with a tailored course that fused together the best and most relevant aspects of the UK SIA and South Africa PSIRA (Poslec SITA) courses with pertinent local input. The course was reviewed and approved for delivery by the Public Security Directorate who gave the 5-day course the
acronym ‘CISOTIC’ meaning; ‘Critical Infrastructure Security Officer-Training & Information Course.’ High praise indeed!
From inception the contract manning grew to a guard force of 134 personnel and 4 x patrol vehicles. Due to the strategic nature of the Key Infrastructure FSS was guarding which included Aqaba Port bulk loading terminals, Safi Potash Plant and the corporate head offices in Amman.
It was recognised that FSS was guarding key national infrastructure, which included Aqaba Port bulk loading terminals and the single largest revenue earning factory in Jordan at the potash plant on the Dead Sea at Safi. Due to the destabilising situation in Syria, the increasing rise of Islamic State across the region and the fallout of the ‘Arab Spring” rebellions the contract was nationalised and taken under the control of the Public Security Directorate and FSS personnel were replaced by State Gendarmerie at all 3 locations on December 31 2017.
FSS had been operating in Pakistan since 2008 and after successfully completing security consultancy projects for Procter & Gamble at Karachi, Port Qassim and Hub in Balochistan, plus provision of expatriate security coordinators for Schlumberger in the O&G fields outside of Islamabad and executive protection services for the European Union Commission in Islamabad FSS registered a local subsidiary Company.
In 2010 FSS secured a sub contract in support of the to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Polio vaccination project in Pakistan. FSS provided a range of support services to facilitate client activities in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and Sukkur and wider across Pakistan.
The security requirement included the provision of secure transportation with tracking, including B6, expatriate coordinators, local armed bodyguards, journey risk management, liaison with external agencies and security trend analysis. The life support requirement included the provision and running of apartments in the Diplomatic Enclave Islamabad including domestic staff, and multitudes of hotel security assessments. The project became High Risk when the Taliban issued a Fatwa against the project in 2015 and the LN vaccination teams were targeted.
The project in Nigeria was very similar and when FSS were contracted focus moved from the South and the project was based out of Abuja FCT with vaccination excursions across northern Nigeria including into Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna and Kano States.
The project in Afghanistan was in its infancy with excursions between 2012 and 2015 by the BMGF project management team not possible much further out than Kabul due to the ultra-high risk levels.
