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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Pakistan: Security Companies In Pakistan On Rise But At Risk

     Low pay, long-hour duty and no training negatively influence the morale of the guards who fail to satisfy the clients.

    “I am continuously paying private security companies and changing guards, but now I feel obliged to arrange personal employees instead of hiring from a company as it failed me,” said a business man. 

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   I read through this report on private security companies in Pakistan, and my first impression is that these companies are in dire need of some Jundism. But really, this puts into perspective why so many blog reports and fears were being stirred about foreign security companies in Pakistan.  I think that propaganda was fueled by competitors who fear a foreign company coming in and doing a better job of security.

   But back to the rise of private security in Pakistan.  The company that figures out that treating your employees well, and providing kick ass customer service and satisfaction, will be the company that wins the most contracts.  The best guards will gravitate towards your company, because you are doing all the things necessary to attract quality people and maintain your contracts.  Companies that apply Kaizen to all aspects of their operation and employee/contractor development, will certainly enjoy dominance in the market place. –Matt

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Security companies in Pakistan on rise but at risk

by Imdad Hussain, Yangtze Yan

    ISLAMABAD, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — As the demand for private guards in the terror-torn Pakistan especially in Islamabad is on the rise, many of the private security companies in the country are focusing more on making money than providing adequate services.

    Clients in the capital city complain that the private security companies are ignoring the quality of their employees, adding that some companies are not well qualified and their employees not well trained while several companies even enter into illegal operation for profits.

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Friday, January 15, 2010

Mexico: Cartel Inc.–In The Company Of Narcos

   This is a fascinating look at the inner workings and organizational methods of a drug cartel.  This is pure free market warfare, but practiced by thugs.  This is like pre-Westphalia stuff, and certainly deserves some attention if you are a student of the drug war and narco-terrorism.

    I also look at these cartels like big juicy targets, over flowing with cash and assets that could end up in the pockets of privateers given authority to take them down. That is how you take down folks who are playing by pre-Westphalia rules and living without any regards to the rule of law or borders. –Matt

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Cartel Inc: In the company of Narcos

Jan 14 2010

By Robin Emmott

RIO BRAVO, Mexico (Reuters) – Late last year, Mexican soldiers raided a house in Rio Bravo, a dilapidated town just across the border from Texas. What they found was a kind of “back office” that belonged to the Gulf cartel, the country’s most violent drug gang.

Inside the gray, one-storey house, clerical workers helped run cocaine shipments hidden in U.S.-bound avocado trucks from southern Mexico, said soldiers on patrol in the town. The office tracked the drug movements in trucks equipped with GPS and progress was logged into spreadsheets on laptops.

The Gulf cartel as well as its hitmen often refer to themselves as “The Company” — and not without reason. Often overlooked amid all the violence and chaos they engender is the fact that Mexico’s drug cartels are capably run businesses that have turned into some of the most lucrative criminal enterprises ever.

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