Sector-specific security and risk expertise.
Across ten sectors, we tailor security programmes, intelligence products, and advisory engagements to the specific risk profile, regulatory context, and operational tempo each industry actually faces.
Commercial Banks
Commercial banks across Africa face a layered threat picture — branch security, ATM and cash-in-transit risk, internal and external fraud, social engineering, and increasingly sophisticated cyber-enabled financial crime. Each layer interacts with regulatory exposure and reputational sensitivity that makes incidents more consequential than the immediate loss.
GTS supports banks with integrated risk management — combining branch security frameworks, fraud investigation capability, behavioural security training, vetting of staff and vendors, and policy and SOP design. We work with security operations, internal audit, and compliance leadership to put security inside business decisions, not alongside them.
- Branch security frameworks and ATM risk programmes
- Internal fraud and misconduct investigations
- Vendor and staff vetting at scale
Manufacturing
Plant security, supply chain integrity, and labour-relations risk dominate the manufacturing security agenda. Sites combine high-value assets, complex perimeters, large workforces, and time-sensitive logistics — and the cost of any disruption cascades quickly across production schedules and customer commitments.
We build plant security programmes that work as one system — perimeter, access, surveillance, manned response, and command-centre oversight — integrated with supply chain controls upstream and downstream. We also run targeted investigations into shrinkage, sabotage, and procurement irregularity, and design behavioural safety and security training for the operating workforce.
- Plant security framework and integration
- Supply chain risk and route security
- Shrinkage and procurement-fraud investigations
Insurance
Insurance carriers face concentrated fraud exposure across claims, distribution, and motor lines — alongside the security and conduct risks that affect every financial institution. Investigation capability, intelligence on emerging fraud patterns, and partner due diligence are core operating requirements rather than optional capabilities.
GTS provides specialist investigation support for complex and high-value claims, behavioural analytics and training for fraud teams, vetting of brokers and assessors, and intelligence support to underwriting in higher-risk segments and geographies. We also help carriers stand up structured investigation governance — case management, evidence handling, and reporting standards.
- Complex claim and broker-fraud investigations
- Vetting of brokers, assessors, and partner networks
- Fraud-team training and investigation governance
Non-Governmental Organizations
NGOs and development agencies operate in some of the most demanding security environments on the continent — areas where political instability, communal conflict, and rapidly evolving safety conditions are routine. Duty of care to staff, partners, and beneficiaries sits alongside donor compliance and operational continuity pressures.
We support NGOs with travel security programmes, journey management, evacuation planning, security risk assessments at field office level, capacity-building for country teams, and intelligence support that helps leadership decide when to scale, pause, or withdraw. Engagements are calibrated to organizational scale and the realities of donor budgets.
- Travel security and journey management programmes
- Field office risk assessments and evacuation planning
- Country-team training and security focal-point development
Agricultural Sector
Large agricultural operations are inherently exposed — long perimeters, valuable mobile assets, seasonal labour peaks, harvest-time logistics windows, and remote locations far from rapid response. Theft, encroachment, and labour-related incidents can move quickly from operational annoyance to material loss.
We design integrated estate security — combining trained manned guarding, perimeter and surveillance technology, command-centre oversight, and harvest-period reinforcement. Investigations support resolves shrinkage and produce traceability problems, and our intelligence work tracks the localized risks that affect specific estates and corridors.
- Integrated estate and perimeter security
- Harvest and logistics-window security reinforcement
- Shrinkage investigation and prevention programmes
Malls, Residential & Hotels
Mixed-use developments, hotels, and residential communities share a difficult security brief — protecting people and assets while preserving the experience of visiting, living, or staying. Visible security must coexist with hospitality standards, and protocols must work for residents, guests, contractors, and the steady flow of unknown visitors.
We design layered programmes that combine trained manned guarding, reception security, access control, CCTV and command-centre integration, and event-specific reinforcement. Programmes are calibrated to property type — luxury hospitality, gated communities, regional malls, mixed-use towers — and the specific community of users each one serves.
- Property-wide security programme design
- Reception, access control, and visitor management
- Event reinforcement and peak-period operations
Investment Firms
Investors and private equity firms operating across Africa face decision-stage risk: how reliable is the target, how clean are the counterparties, how exposed is the operating environment, and what surprises lurk in the next reporting cycle. The cost of imperfect information is high — and slow-built reputations can be eroded by a single bad deal.
We deliver pre-deal vetting and due diligence, market entry analysis, M&A risk assessments, embedded advisory through transactions, and ongoing intelligence support for portfolio companies. Outputs are designed for investment committees and boards — concise, risk-rated, and defensible.
- Pre-deal vetting and due diligence
- Market entry and M&A risk assessments
- Embedded advisory and portfolio company support
Universities, Colleges & Schools
Educational institutions balance an open culture with non-negotiable safety obligations — campus access, student safety, residential security, large-event management, and increasingly, online and behavioural risks. Incidents become public quickly and the institutional response shapes reputation for years.
We support institutions with campus risk assessments, integrated security programmes that respect academic openness, manned and technical security for residential blocks, event security, behavioural awareness training for staff and students, and incident-response governance — including the difficult conversations around child protection.
- Campus risk assessment and security framework design
- Residential and event security operations
- Behavioural awareness and incident-response training
Parastatals
State-owned enterprises sit at the intersection of commercial operations, public expectation, and political scrutiny. Security and risk programmes must be operationally effective, demonstrably ethical, and resilient to changes in leadership — across critical infrastructure, public-service estates, and high-value asset bases.
GTS supports parastatals with security risk assessments, governance and policy design, capacity building for in-house security teams, embedded advisory through reform programmes, and investigations capability that meets the higher evidentiary bar of public-sector accountability.
- Security risk assessments and framework design
- Policy, SOP, and governance reform support
- Investigation capability and capacity building
County Governments
County governments carry frontline responsibility for public safety, infrastructure protection, and emergency preparedness — often with limited specialist capacity and a heavy political accountability burden. Building durable security and risk capability inside the county system is as important as any single programme delivered.
We work with county governments on capacity-building for security and emergency response teams, evacuation and disaster-preparedness programmes, security risk assessments for county facilities, and structured policy and SOP development to embed sustainable practice across departments.
- Capacity building for county security and response teams
- Evacuation and disaster preparedness programmes
- County facility risk assessments and policy support
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