Travel, Transport & Security
Security coordination in Iraq, through licensed providers
Security in Iraq is a licensed activity, and it should be. We contract and supervise the licensed company that does the work, so it is the right one — properly checked, properly contracted and properly overseen — and you deal with us.
What you receive
- A written specification of what the security service actually has to do
- A verification file per provider: licence, ownership, insurance, due diligence, standards
- A comparison and a recommendation, with the contract signed by you
- Monthly performance and invoice review, and incident follow-up
Any provider willing to blur that line is telling you something about how they treat every other rule. We keep it sharp, and the licensing sits where the law puts it.
Our role is the procurement and oversight role: scoping the requirement, shortlisting licensed companies, checking their licences, ownership, insurance and standards, running the comparison, and then holding them to the contract we sign with them on your behalf.
Provider selection and oversight
This is the part Salt performs directly.
- Requirement scoping and service specification
- Shortlisting licensed security companies
- Licence, ownership, insurance and due diligence checks
- Human-rights and use-of-force standards review
- RFQ, comparison and recommendation
- Mobilisation coordination
- Monthly performance and invoice review
- Incident reporting oversight and follow-up
Contract review is legal work and is handled by Salt & Associates, engaged separately. The contract is signed by you, not by Salt.
Guarding and protection services
Performed by licensed security companies, contracted by the client.
- Static guarding for offices, residences and sites
- Residential and compound security
- Access control and gate security personnel
- Close protection for executives and delegations
- Secure movement and protective security details
- Armoured vehicle provision with trained drivers
- Convoy and multi-vehicle movements
- Event security
- Site and project security
Advisory, assessment and journey security
- Security risk assessment for an office, residence, compound or project
- Site security survey and recommendations
- Threat and travel risk briefings
- Security plan and standard operating procedure review
- Journey management planning, route selection and timing
- Movement tracking and check-in procedures
- Airport arrival and departure security support
- Inter-city road movement support
Technical security and screening
- CCTV and monitoring systems supply and installation
- Access control and intruder alarm systems
- Screening equipment: X-ray, walk-through and hand-held
- Vehicle barriers, bollards and gates
- Control room set-up and monitoring
- Pre-employment background screening
- Supplier and contractor integrity screening
- Visitor screening procedures
Crisis, continuity and cyber
- Crisis management and evacuation planning
- Business continuity planning for the site
- Emergency drills and staff training
- Medical emergency and evacuation coordination
- Kidnap-and-ransom and special-risks insurance through licensed brokers
- Network and endpoint security, secure Wi-Fi and device management
- Email security, phishing protection, data back-up and recovery
Who it is suitable for
- Companies contracting security in Iraq for the first time
- Operations inheriting a security contract nobody has reviewed
- Missions and organisations needing security integrated with facilities and transport
- Projects mobilising to a site
Where this touches legal work. Contract review, duty-of-care obligations and liability questions sit with Salt & Associates, engaged separately. Our part is the procurement and the oversight.
Common questions
Does Salt provide guards?
Everything in the guarding, protection, technical and crisis sections above is performed by licensed providers on your contract. Our role is the one that makes it work: specification, selection, licence and insurance checks, oversight and invoice review.
Who signs the security contract?
You do. Salt does not hold security contracts in its own name. We run the selection and the oversight; the contractual relationship is yours.
What is checked before a provider is shortlisted?
Licence validity, ownership and beneficial ownership, insurance, due diligence on the company and its owners, and a review of their human-rights and use-of-force standards. Anything that fails is not shortlisted.
Related services
Related insights
Tell us what has to be protected.
An office, a residence, a site or a movement. We will scope it and run the selection.
One Desk in Baghdad. Turnkey back-office infrastructure.
Salt Corporate Services runs all ten areas below — 33 services and 15 configured products, under one account lead, one request channel and one monthly report. Most clients start with one area and add the rest as the operation grows.