FSS had been operating in Pakistan since 2008 and after successfully completing security consultancy projects for Procter & Gamble at Karachi, Port Qassim and Hub in Balochistan, plus provision of expatriate security coordinators for Schlumberger in the O&G fields outside of Islamabad and executive protection services for the European Union Commission in Islamabad FSS registered a local subsidiary Company.
In 2010 FSS secured a sub contract in support of the to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Polio vaccination project in Pakistan. FSS provided a range of support services to facilitate client activities in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and Sukkur and wider across Pakistan.
The security requirement included the provision of secure transportation with tracking, including B6, expatriate coordinators, local armed bodyguards, journey risk management, liaison with external agencies and security trend analysis. The life support requirement included the provision and running of apartments in the Diplomatic Enclave Islamabad including domestic staff, and multitudes of hotel security assessments. The project became High Risk when the Taliban issued a Fatwa against the project in 2015 and the LN vaccination teams were targeted.
The project in Nigeria was very similar and when FSS were contracted focus moved from the South and the project was based out of Abuja FCT with vaccination excursions across northern Nigeria including into Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna and Kano States.
The project in Afghanistan was in its infancy with excursions between 2012 and 2015 by the BMGF project management team not possible much further out than Kabul due to the ultra-high risk levels.
