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.
