Case Studies
Security & Life Support – Jordan
Client: Potash Corporations of Sasketchewan & Arab Potash Company
Date: 2011 – 2017
Total Commitment: $9.6 Million
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 Force Services/Emergency Evacuation/Personal Protection (Bodyguarding) Services, Tracking, Ops Room Management in Amman, Safi & Aqaba and armed response callout to the expatriate residences and client corporate offices.
FSS delivered the guard force training utilising in-house qualified trainers and initially trained 56 security officers and 16 security site 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.
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 were guarding which included Aqaba Port bulk loading terminals, Safi Potash Plant and the corporate head offices contract was nationalized and taken under security control of the Public Security Directorate and FSS personnel were replaced by State Gendarmerie forces on December 31 2017.