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We Provide Security Services Across The Globe
Global Executive Security Services (GESS) is an internationally recognised specialist security company who offers a diverse range of security services.About Us
The company is the brainchild of Mr Jacques Mauve a former Special Forces personnel with decades of security experience both in the military and civilian sector. Jacques has also spent several years as diplomat at French Embassy in India and South Africa and as the head of security for the European Union in Southern African countries such as Angola, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and in Afghanistan. This experience and network has provided the company with valuable resources and networks across the globe.
Through a group of carefully selected group of associates, the company is able to provide a range of security services across the globe.
GESS is managed by a team of internationally respected protection specialists who have decades of diverse operational experience in specialist security, both nationally and internationally. We have the relevant experience and capability to operate in a corporate environment as well as in harsh or hostile environments. We also have personnel who have the unique knowledge and experience of researching, designing and implementing safety and security measures for government and diplomatic organizations.
As a specialist security company we offer a range of services and are willing and able to tailor-make solutions to meet with client requirements.
Our Global Presence
COUNTRIES WHERE OUR CONSORTIUM IS PRESENT
COUNTRIES WITH TRUSTED STRATEGIC PARTNERS
COUNTRIES WITH IDENTIFIED PARTNERS*
*Countries which need first an evaluation of requested services before confirmation of the capabilities.Enlarge map and zoom for Worldwide view. Click on the icons to view our services.
Risk Division
Our Risk Division consists of Security Industry Specialists who have had extensive experience in the Police, Military and Intelligence departments as well as in the corporate environment. These individuals pride themselves on attention to detail and whose primary focus is to ensure that our clients get value for money.
GESS also helps businesses in understanding local business culture, requirements, challenges, potential risk or threats or issues and makes recommendations on their development strategies in sensitive areas such as choice of site location, validation of potential partners, organization of official visits, etc.
Investigations, Surveillance and Specialised Services
We have a track record of delivering the following services to various industries and private individuals:-We Help You In Understanding Local Business
Viewed as a distinct competitive advantage, risk mapping is now considered as a necessary and required tool when it comes to international development operations and assists in the conquest of new markets.
The information gathered and analyzed by GESS through its reliable network constitutes a valuable and strategic tool for decision making.
The following is an overview of our primary solutions:-
- Decoding networks
- Due diligence
- Counterfeit risk management
- Reputation risk
- Political analysis
- Security analysis
- Situation follow-up
Infrastructure Protection
Due to its unique and high-level expertise, GESS has often been chosen by several government bodies to ensure security reinforcement of some of the most exposed and vulnerable institutional sites.
ConsultancyRelying on a precise analysis of risk exposure, GESS offers complete protection plans for infrastructure, including the designing of policies and procedures and standard operating procedures.
This ensures that the risks of intrusion, attack or infiltration are minimized.
In order to optimize buildings’ protection against criminal/terrorist threats, GESS relies on a unique panel of experts and modeling software, meant to precisely assess the vulnerability of infrastructures in case of accidents or attacks using explosive devices.
These are some of the services that we provide in the infrastructure protection division:-
- Security site survey
- Vulnerability assessment
- Designing security plans
- Building protection against criminal/terrorist threat
- Building protection against risk of intrusion or malicious acts
- Assistance in project ownership and project supervision
Consultancy
We provide travel advisories, recommend safe and secure accommodation, recommend schools and undertake orientation training for personnel.
Successful investment or relocation to any country requires a thorough analysis of potential risks, threats and vulnerabilities and this is where we intervene to assess the relationships between the various players, make recommendations, assist with the project roll-out and provide medium to long-term advice and protection for business assets and investments.
We also undertake assessments and evaluations of current security measures and in place to ensure the following:-
- Physical security measures are adequate and current
- Technical security measures are adequate and current
- Cameras and CCTV’s are strategically placed
- Data collected from cameras, cctv and access points are properly collected and stored
- Policies and procedures are in place and relevant
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) are in place
- Health and Safety requirements are in place
- That the client is getting what he is paying for
- The client is getting value for money
Operational Support
GESS consultants deployed abroad are managed and monitored directly by the management team based in South Africa, Niger, Nigeria, Mozambique or USA.GESS supports daily operations for numerous businesses abroad, providing them with a range of highly qualified security consultants, security managers and key security personnel who are tasked with coordinating and managing security installations and operations on a long term basis.
These are some of the key solutions that we offer within operational support:-
- Development of security systems for major projects
- Business continuity plan
- Provision of security consultants
- Provision of security managers
- Provision of key security personnel
- Supply of security equipment
- Recruitment of local managers
- Crisis management support
- Orientation sessions on risks and threats
Government Solutions
GESS continually enjoys the trust and confidence of numerous governments and International government bodies since its establishment.We have the experience required to provide tailor-made solutions for the various needs expressed by governments and international organizations.
The majority of GESS’s personnel are former Special Forces operatives. Since leaving their different units and countries they have honed their skills and experience through operations conducted in some of the most hostile environments across the globe.
These experts offer training courses to government bodies and international institutions. Latest methods of training are now available for CPO (Close Protection Officer), Fire man, Navy officer (counter naval terrorism) and Safety officers.
GESS also supplies high-level security experts to government and international bodies, in order to support them with the design of their safety and security plans and systems.
Building on its unique expertise in the protection of sensitive technologies, GESS offers its knowledge to International public bodies and are willing to guarantee the technical integrity of national strategic systems and sensitive equipment used for export.
GESS is one of the few players providing experts, able to conceive global security planning for complex industrial and institutional sites.
Operating on highly exposed and sensitive institutional sites, GESS already enjoys the trust of several French government bodies for the protection of their infrastructures.
Protection
GESS offers personal protection to clients and/or personnel working in harsh, remote and/or hostile environments.
Protecting People Information Protection VIP Escorts & Close ProtectionIn requirements of this nature we establish a base in-country and create a safety village for clients and personnel. We also provide armored vehicles, firearms, security uniforms and equipment as well as general equipment for clients working in these environments.
GESS can ensure the protection and evacuation of its clients' employees, upstream of their project or in event of major risk.
GESS unique expertise in protecting technology and information was formerly dedicated to French government bodies only. It is now also available for private business, as part of a relocation and export processes
GESS sets up a tailor made service for personnel who would like to have VIP escorts and close protection services during their business or leisure trips, anywhere in the world.
Protecting People
GESS offers personal protection to clients and/or personnel working in harsh, remote and/or hostile environments. In requirements of this nature we establish a base in-country and create a safety village for clients and personnel. We also provide armored vehicles, firearms, security uniforms and equipment as well as general equipment for clients working in these environments.
GESS can ensure the protection and evacuation of its clients’ employees, upstream of their project or in event of major risk.
The mechanism and operational solutions offered by GESS ensure that companies are in compliance with all of their legal obligations regarding employee safety.
GESS also has the network, capability and resources to successfully implement evacuation plans through air, land or seas the circumstances may require.
These are some of the services that we offer under this division:-
- Contingency planning
- Security survey
- Environment monitoring
- Event security
- Close protection
- Tracking
- Negotiations for blackmail, extortion and hostage release.
Information Protection
GESS possesses the knowledge, expertise and technology to protect the integrity of sensitive information and technology both from within and outside of the company.
GESS unique expertise in protecting technology and information was formerly dedicated to French government bodies only. It is now also available for private business, as part of a relocation and export processes.
GESS therefore provides the same security services to businesses and to the African and European space sector. GESS experts also ensure continuous security and traceability for flows of sensitive materials.
VIP Escorts & Close Protection
GESS sets up a tailor made service for personnel who would like to have VIP escorts and close protection services during their business or leisure trips, anywhere in the world.We provide the following specialist services under this division:-
The protection division is managed by close protection specialists that have decades of experience on the national and international fronts. The Director as well as the Operational Manager of the division have spent several years in the government protection structures and since leaving government have developed to become well-respected protection specialist and security consultants within the private sector.
We have a team of formally trained and compliant Close Protection Officers that we are able to deploy both nationally and internationally. Our protectors are able to blend in with our clients and are equally comfortable in a boardroom situation as well as in a hostile situation. Both the company and protectors are acutely aware of the need for confidentiality and we respect and abide by this.
We also provide monthly training to our CPO’s and conduct quarterly assessments on them to ensure that they maintain prescribed and international standards. We also conduct initial and random polygraph tests on all CPO’s that are deployed, this to ensure that client confidentiality is always maintained and protected.
We understand that protection is far more than carrying a gun and being able to fight and believe that with proper planning and execution of an assignment there should be little need to call on the hard skills of protection.
Our primary focus in the protection of clients is to ensure that we provide the comfort, peace of mind and confidence to the client to enable him to go about his business in a normal manner.
We provide specially trained drivers that are competent in advance driving, offensive and defensive driving, security awareness and hijack avoidance. The drivers are also trained in protocol and etiquette and are well presented and professional individuals.
We also provide the following types of vehicles:-
- Luxury sedans (Mercedes, BMW’s, Audis, etc.)
- SUV’s
- People carriers (Vito’s, Caravelles, Microbuses, etc.)
- Ordinary sedans
- Armoured vehicles
- Luxury buses
The residential security officers that we provide are trained by ourselves and are trained beyond the level of ordinary security officers. These officers are deployed at the residences of high profile people and executives. They are also trained to understand the operations of close protection officers and teams so that they are able to integrate and work together.
We have the experience and knowledge of planning and executing security around major events such as international conferences, major sports activities, awards functions and similar public gatherings. We also enjoy a close working relationship with numerous authorities managing major events with whom we work with on a regular basis.
Our venue security officers are individuals who are specially trained for operations within the corporate environment. These men and women are able to seamlessly blend into a corporate environment and possess the necessary protocol and etiquette to interact at this level, whilst maintaining the ability to execute their primary responsibility of maintaining peace and order during events.
We have specially trained personnel who undertake high risk and high value asset protection projects. These projects include assets such as:-
- Precious metals transportation
- Escorts of vehicles transporting precious metals
- Transport and escorting of high value assets such as cell phones
- Protection during strikes and labour unrest
We provide operational medical personnel, from basic first-aiders all the way to Advanced Life Support paramedics as well as fully manned and equipped trauma ambulances.
Our team of security, medical and emergency personnel is also able to conduct risk assessments on your events and compile a disaster management plan which is a legal requirement for the hosting of public events.
Our VIP / Executive protection services are based on the following procedures:
- Contingency Planning in the event of any incidents, what needs to be done and by whom
- Use of predetermined routes, alternative routes, means, measures, man power, etc
- Reconnaissance takes place before actual operation commences to determine safe routes and zones
- Action Report after every deployment a synopsis of events as they occurred is recorded including decisions made and or actions taken.
GESS is proud to have organized with success, the escort and protection of several businessmen and high profile families during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
K9 Protection
All our dogs, Explosive Detection Dogs (EDDs) and Narcotic Detection Dogs (NDDs) are available for sale or rental option.
EDDs NDDs Dog HandlersEach dog has it's own personal file which includes the following information :
- Date of the sale
- Details of the breeder (Company name, address, contact, Company registration)
- Name of the dogs
- Date of birth
- Birth certificate
- Microchip number
- Parents details (name, date of birth, breed, origin)
- Sex, breed, color, type of the dog
- Age of the training (explosive or narcotic) certification
- Details of the veterinary (name, address, contacts, registration number)
- Medical file with X-ray
- Signed vaccination card with details of all vaccination
- Travel document/passport
All dogs need to have the following vaccines :
- Carre's disease (Canine distemper)
- Contagious hepatitis (Rubarth's disease)
- Canine parvovirus
- Coxofemoral dysplasia
- Testicular ecotopia for animals older than six months
- Retinal Atrophy
Explosive Detection Dogs (EDDs)
The dogs are trained on 11 basic odours (Ammonium, Nitrate, Hexogène, HNS (hexanitrostilbene), Sulfure, Pentrite, Tetryl, Tolite, Nytro, Iremite, Octogène), which allows them to detect IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) of different types and compositions of explosives.
The dogs are trained to sit passive or lay down passive when the dog is in odour recognition. The basic training is established at our partner training center in the Suburb of Paris, France, after which this training gets expanded to several search areas in the neighbourhood. After the training is completed, the dogs have got experience in training;
- All types of luggage and packages
- All types of vehicles
- All types of buildings
- Open areas, agricultural areas and open yards
- Human search (on demand)
The dogs will be trained to work on leash with the handler and on short distance off leash search from the handler (maximum of 15-20 metres distance). The dogs will be able to work in crowded, noisy areas and situations and will be free around gunfire.
Narcotic Detection Dogs (NDDs)
Due to the increasing presence of narcotics in our society, the demand increases for detection and control: so-called narcotic control. GESS's K9 Department is specialized in the most effective form of narcotic control: the use of narcotic detection dogs.
In the global fight against narcotics, the use of narcotic detection dogs proved an effective and preventive effect. Regular narcotic testing is a signal that use and trafficking of narcotics is not tolerated, leading to reduced nuisance.
The detection dog teams are deployed for checking persons, vehicles, infrastructures (office, airport) and properties. Inspections by the narcotic detection dog teams take place in a professional and discrete way, without the dogs posing a threat. To keep quality at a high level the detection dogs are continually rigorously trained and tested by GESS's certified dog training instructors.
The Narcotic dogs are high drive dogs and are imprinted on the following substances:
Hashish, Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, Methamphetamines.Dog Handler / Master Kennel
GESS's dog handler are responsible for training dogs and determining the best course of action after observing dog behaviour patterns. Main job responsibilities seen on a Dog Handler example resume are disciplining animals, rewarding positive behaviour and correcting bad behaviour, offering advice to clients, and training animals to perform rescue missions, detect explosive device, illegal drugs, or protect property. Dog handler requirements include the ability to interact with dogs and establish themselves as the dominant actor, self-confidence, observation, patience, and decision making. Most resumes in the field make display of dog training experience and the completion of an approved training program.
DOG HANDLER AND MASTER KENNEL SKILLS
- Managed groups of dogs behaviour and activity
- Adapted to any situation while sometimes not having a supervisor around
- Prepared facility for opening and closing shifts including setting security, cleaning, and maintenance
- Ensured proper medication and feeding was done for overnight shifts
- Certified on both a Narcotic Detector Dog and Explosive Detector Dog
- Qualified as dog's handler instructor
Contact
- GESS
- Jacques Mauve
- Head Office - Johannesburg
- + 27 (0)82 853 1885
- info@ge-ss.com