Assessment only
We assess, we write it up, we hand it over. You are free to act on it with your existing provider, your own team, or nobody. Useful when you suspect there is a problem but cannot yet describe it precisely enough to procure against.
How we work
No proposal before the site visit.
Any provider who can quote your security before walking your asset is selling you a package, not a solution. Here is what an engagement with us actually looks like, stage by stage, and what you should expect to receive at each one.
01 Community & early warning
02 Corridor surveillance & patrol
03 Perimeter control & access
04 On-asset protection
The asset
The five stages
From first conversation to steady state.
Each stage has a defined output. If you cannot see what you received at the end of a stage, the stage did not happen.
01
STAGE 1
Assessment
We visit. We walk the perimeter, drive or survey the corridor, look at the access points, read the incident history and talk to the people who actually run the site. We look at what is already installed and establish honestly how much of it is working.
What you receive
- A written risk and vulnerability assessment
- A mapped inventory of existing controls and their condition
- A prioritised list of gaps, ranked by exposure rather than by ease of fixing
02
STAGE 2
Design
The assessment becomes an integrated protection plan. Technology, personnel, procedure and community engagement are designed together rather than bought separately, because the point of failure is almost always where they meet.
What you receive
- An integrated protection design covering all relevant capabilities
- Manning levels, posts and shift structure
- Equipment specification with environmental and power requirements
- Escalation matrix and draft standard operating procedures
- Costed proposal, separated into capital and recurring
03
STAGE 3
Mobilisation
Nothing goes live until it has been tested. Equipment is installed and commissioned, personnel are recruited, vetted, trained and briefed on this specific site, communications are proven end to end, and the command structure is stood up.
What you receive
- Commissioned and tested equipment with handover records
- Vetted, trained and site-briefed personnel
- Proven primary and fallback communications
- Signed-off procedures held by everyone who needs them
04
STAGE 4
Operations
Day-to-day delivery against the agreed plan: monitoring, patrolling, access control, community liaison and incident response. Everything that happens is logged and attributable, and the log is yours.
What you receive
- Continuous monitoring and patrol delivery
- Incident response against agreed timings and escalation
- Ongoing community liaison and grievance handling
- Equipment maintenance and fault tracking
05
STAGE 5
Reporting & review
A security arrangement you cannot measure is one you cannot manage. Reporting is written, regular, and specific enough to act on, and it includes the things that went wrong.
What you receive
- Routine activity and incident reporting
- Trend analysis across sites and over time
- Periodic review of whether the design still fits the threat
- Recommendations, including where spend should be reduced
Ways to engage
You do not have to buy all of it.
Three common starting points. The first two are genuinely useful on their own, and neither obliges you to take the third.
Design and build
We design the protection system and deliver the physical and technical elements — infrastructure, automation, control room — then hand over to your own security operation to run.
Design, build and operate
Full lifecycle. We design it, we deploy it, and we run it against agreed service levels with regular reporting. One accountable party for the whole chain.
Working together
What we need from you
Protection arrangements fail as often on the client side as the provider side. These are the things that, in our experience, decide whether a programme works.
- Honest incident history, including the incidents that were never formally reported
- A named decision-maker who can authorise a response at 2am
- Site access for the assessment, including the parts nobody likes showing
- Visibility of existing commitments made to host communities
- A realistic budget envelope early, so the design is built to fit it
Fair warning
What we will not do
Some things get promised in this industry that should not be. So that there is no misunderstanding later:
- Quote a manning level or equipment list before assessing the site
- Guarantee that no incident will ever occur — no one can, and anyone who does is telling you something else about themselves
- Offer armed protection outside the lawful channels for it in Nigeria
- Report an incident as anything other than what it was
- Recommend spend that the assessment does not support