LUBRINCO helps make at-risk clients more productive and profitable by facilitating their daily life, and , and by reducing risk in the high-threat environments of Latin America, Africa, the Mid-East, and Southeast Asia.
Protective services must be appropriate for the actual level of threat faced. Threats range from wasted time caused by unfamiliarity with a foreign culture or location, to embarrassing situations that could produce bad publicity. From accidents and medical emergencies, to physical dangers including being kidnapped or killed as the result of either a hostile political or economic environment, or by the targeted design of a criminal. From fire to earthquaqe, hurricane, volcano, tornedo, or flood.
Within the U.S., only those who are rich, famous, overly visible, or being stalked are likely to face an increased level of risk. But if you travel or work abroad in an executive capacity, you, and members of your family and staff, may be targets of terrorists for political reasons, by criminal stalkers, or by criminals for profit. LUBRINCO specializes in those situations where the client faces a high risk of physical danger due to either the position held or the environment in which he or she is operating. It is because of this that we work largely in Latin America, Africa, the Mid-East, and Southeast Asia.
Protection should be provided to anyone whose injury or loss would have a negative impact on an enterprise such that the sums involved in providing protection are deemed cost-effective when compared to the alternatives. Note that by this definition there need not be an exceptional threat involved to provide some level of protection. Also, note that by providing facilitation services, protective agents may free up enough of their principal's time to more than cover their costs.
When you travel or work in an executive capacity outside of the United States, Canada, and western Europe you – and members of your staff and family – are potential targets for political reasons by terrorists, or by criminals for profit. The costs to the enterprise in the case of a kidnapping may justify protective services for some executives (and their staff and families) who would not merit protection in the U.S.
Both terrorists and criminals are, in some perverted sense, risk-aversive businessmen. They generally invest a good deal of time in choosing their targets, and look for targets of opportunity where they will face little resistance. If you are in the private sector and being protected, most terrorists and criminals will move on to an easier target, where no protection is being provided. (This differs from the public sector, where the alternative to kidnapping becomes assassination, since there is likely no equivalent different target to choose).
Unfortunately, the very success of protective services (i.e., nothing bad happens) often legislates against needed protective services being provided. There are three factors that come into play.
This leads to a feeling in many organizations that it is better to trust to luck that nothing will happen, and to rely on the government, as well as kidnapping and ransom insurance policies, to deal with any problems and associated costs that might arise. Even in high-risk areas many organizations - including large and wealthy organizations which should know better - often decide not to provide needed protective services.
LUBRINCO's job is to determine the actual level and nature of the the threats (without which the IRS is likely to classify protective services as taxable benefits) then reduce client vulnerabilities to move move them from the attractive potential target category into the unattractive potential target category. thus inducing criminals to go after a more vulnerable subject.
LUBRINCO's expertise in protective services muniquely equips it to arrange for the safe transport of people carrying goods of significant valuae and commodities. In those cases where commercial carriers are an imprudent option, or where the principal must accompany the goods – a situation which is always fraught with danger – LUBRINCO can help.
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