Primarily, Physical Security depends on an evaluation of the risk the business activity presents. Evaluating the risks relative to personnel, facilities and equipment within the business environment is an important managerial function since it allows for the development of preventive policies and procedures.
There are four basic elements that define the General Risk Level. They are:

  • "Assets": tangible or intangible, things that are owned susceptible to loss;
  • "Threats": potential causes of asset loss;
  • "Vulnerabilities": weak existing security measures and their potential to allow a threat to progress;
  • "Countermeasures": the actions, procedures, technology or capability deployed to reduce or eliminate the vulnerabilities.

Through its specified division, IFPC-IGI is capable to evaluate the organization's Risk Level and implement the necessary counter-measures to reduce or eliminate the vulnerabilities.

The Executive Protection plan is an area that cannot be ignored. Kidnapping has become an industry which is in constant growth - especially in some Latin American countries - attributed to the increase in opportunities, weak laws, lax enforcement and the growing disparity between poverty and wealth.

In 1999 over 6,000 kidnappings took place in Latin America and the executives of multi-national companies were the main targets. The reasoning is simple; these companies potentially offer the most lucrative rewards. Yet not only kidnappings are reasons for preoccupation as street violence, robberies, and aggression also form part of the personnel security concern.

IFPC-IGI through its global network, consisting of highly trained professionals in protection, risk evaluation, investigations and/or kidnapping negotiations and rescues, offers executive protection services with the highest degree of efficiency. Our personnel have designed policies and procedures with guidelines to assist businesses in the development of their crisis management plans.

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