Cardinal Security Services Limited

Executive protection team members

Incorporated in August 2005, Cardinal Security Services Limited has grown from a local company to a regional business with its corporate headquarters in Lagos and other business units in Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Senegal.

I Drive Smart Limited, Cardinal’s sister company, is an expert driving school designed by professionals with the main objective to provide driving skills to clients in an exceptional manner through evasive and defensive driving courses; hostile environment and anti-ambush techniques; and security convoy driving.

Vision

To render efficient and affordable security services and solutions to our clients. 

Mission

To work to enable our clients to succeed in a complex or hostile environment.

Our Services

• Security escort services
• Airport protocol – We provide meet-and-greet / airport protocol services to our clients. Special and Detailed Country Briefings are given to New Arrivals in Nigeria at the Airport. Meet & Greet Services include the provision of passenger vehicle(s) and Escort team(s) as required by the client. This service is to convey and escort
  visitors from the airport to hotels, various offices or private residences. The escort services are carried out by highly trained DDC (Defensive Drivers’ Course) and EMT (Evasive and Maneuvering Techniques) Security Drivers and Escort Commanders
  trained in the art of Executive Protection and UK BTEC Level 3 Close Protection Course. The vehicles are equipped with Real Time Vehicle Trackers and radios.
• Executive protection – We make available on request professional body-guards (CP) who are well trained in Marshall Arts. Our CP teams are trained by a US Security Company in Executive Protection Course for Hostile Environment and UK BTEC Level 3 Close Protection Course. They are constantly trained to keep their expertise at cutting edge with good diplomatic skills and are effective in executing their task.
• Guard force – We provide trainable individuals who are carefully selected and vetted and have attained necessary levels of education as well as being medically and physically fit as static security guards, on 12-24 hours basis to clients that help protect their people and assets. Such guards are always on uniform and work on shifts so as to provide emergency relief on a rotational basis.
• Event security – We assist in providing customer friendly event security and crowd management services. Whether a social or corporate event of any size, our security officers are fully trained and prepared to meet any requirement your function may present.
• Quick response force
• Security risk assessment – We strategise on how to manage crisis – identifying risk, containing and reducing effects of crisis and managing crisis in any given situation. We also deal in intelligence gathering reports which we send out to clients on a daily or weekly basis. Cardinal Security’ Online service and text messaging service provides daily weekly and monthly security analysis/updates; City Brief offers an in-depth reference to Nigeria. For longer term assessments and detailed forecasts, clients commission specific reports on a country, region or topic. Our in-house team of analysts is supported by a network of retained correspondents.
• Investigation, due diligence and anticounterfeiting – We carry out standard investigation procedures for our clients based on the investigation need and
  also provide due diligence checks and vetting for clients. Cardinal provides professional security trainings and education to corporate organizations, executives and NGOs. These trainings are held at agreed locations. The trainings are delivered by qualified Special International and local Instructors who deploy doctrines and training methodology derived from contemporary operational experience.
• Electronic security systems
• Hostage negotiation
• Crisis management – We provide motorized Emergency response services to attend to kidnaps, robbery attacks, social unrest, medical emergencies etc. our Control Centre works 24/7 and receive distress calls on any emergency from our clients and from the alarm system, which they quickly respond to minimize threats.
• Evacuation planning and support
• Vehicle tracking – We provide organizations with complete monitoring of their assets by transferring valuable information via Internet, satellite and GSM communication on a 24 hour per day/7 days a week basis with the use of the Vehicle/Materials Tracking Devices. Our real time tracking, monitoring & location capabilities for land, sea and air assets utilize Satellite and GSM communications. It helps deliver measurable business and operational benefit by providing total visibility and control of mobile with a combination of GPS/GPRS/SAT and GSM technology for fleet management purposes, vehicle tracking and personal tracking systems. Our platform is automated to generate reports to make transportation information available to you quickly and easily. These reports can be used as it is, or can be customized to fit your business operations needs. The vehicle monitoring systems is capable of measuring engine and driver performance, troubleshooting problems, and observing how and when your vehicles are being driven. We undertake logistics and fleet management for client vehicles and assets. Our Personnel Tracking Device is a Smartphone tracking that uses 3G and 4G networks to provide travelling executives with reliable, cost-effective tracking solution with panic alarm capability.

Mr Silvester Ibeh, CEO

Silvester is a highly experienced security practitioner who has enjoyed a successful and rewarding 20 years career within the Security Industry. He was the Regional Security Coordinator in Schlumberger with the role of ensuring adequate security for the organisation’s staff and business assets within the region; development of security policies, procedures and plans in consultation with all the business segments; including preparation of country security assessments and advice on local management of security matters.

Silvester is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), a qualified Company Security Officer (ISPS – International Ship and Port Security Certification), member Nigerian Institute of Industrial Security (NIIS), as well as Corporate Organization Security Group and a member of Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC).

He has also studied extensively abroad under SIA, ARC Security Management Training centre in UK. To further boost his Career / knowledge in Security matters, he attended training in Advanced Executive Protection (PSD) – Training Designed for Operating in Hostile Environments in the United States of America. He has also completed a course in Executive Protection & Evasive /Maneuvering Driving in Hostile Environments in the United States of America.
Presently, Mr. Silvester Ibeh is the CEO and Managing Director of Cardinal Security Services Limited. A fully incorporated Nigerian Security Company established in August 2005. The company ranks itself among the leading professional security services providers in the country bringing security solutions, and best practices available within the security industry to bear in ensuring that it meets and/or surpasses the clients’ expectations. In a recent survey carried out by an independent organisation- Frank Anderson Consulting, Cardinal was rated as one of the best security company to do business with. The website is
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/survey-report-okays-12-security-firms-in-nigeria/

Cardinal standards meet world best practices – CEO Silvester Ibeh in New York receiving the Gold Award for Excellence and Business Prestige

Under the distinguished management and leadership of Silvester Ibeh, the company was
awarded the Gold Award for Excellence and Business Prestige in New York in May 2012. The company was also nominated as a finalist for Security Excellent Award 2012 in UK. Clearly, distinguishing itself as the only security company in West Africa to receive two international recognition for quality and excellent service delivery in 2012.

Presently, the said company has sister companies in Senegal, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and Burkina Faso. Recently, Cardinal established another sister company in Nigeria – I Drive Smart Limited, a company that engages in the provision of Drivers Training to its clients basically Drivers. The company was incorporated on April 7th, 2014 by a team of professional and skilled drivers whose main vision and objective is to make a world of difference and impact in the provision of professional driving to its clients in exceptional manner

Mr. Silvester Ibeh is an icon in the Security Industry who has through his managerial and
leadership skills been able to achieve a lot.

Contact

#3 Dr Udo Wogu St, Chevy View Estate,
Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria

Tel: +234 809 111 1002,
+234 812 900 8900

Email: sibeh@cardinal-ng.com
info@cardinal-ng.com

www.cardinal-ng.com