Harbour Marketing International (H.M.I.) is registered to provide with their licensed partners PSD services across Iraq and have run thousands of missions for numerous direct and indirect clients since our inception.

The configurations of our PSD’s are designed to meet the specific task being undertaken and can vary in size, personnel and type of vehicle. As a baseline, however, we work to specific standards and the configuration given above complies with this.

Our Iraqi operators typically come from the Iraqi security forces, have received continuation training from ourselves and have had background checks conducted with the Ministry of Interior and Iraqi Security Forces. In most cases they have worked with us for years and bring both language and cultural expertise. The Iraqi commanders are ex-­ military in the Iraqi forces both military and police with high ranks.

The majority of our missions are conducted in factory fitted B6 level SUV armored vehicles. These vehicles will have integral ballistic steel and windows, hermetic cabin protection with complete material overlapping. B6 SUVs offer protection from Blast and Small Arms Fire and Run Flats tires are fitted as standard. Each vehicle is equipped with full self-­recovery capability. This equipment will include, but not be limited to;; a tow rope rigged for rapid utilization, suitable jacks, axes, sledgehammer, ‘crow bars’ and other means of manual extraction.

Communications

Our communications solutions utilize equipment selected to withstand the harsh environment of rural Iraq and that also offer flexibility and durability. It has a standard warranty of one year, and spare parts are readily available in Iraq. Furthermore, H.M.I. can provide local support and maintenance contracts for client operations in Iraq ensuring smooth operations of mission critical communications.

Communications between the Regional Operations Centre and Your teams

As the Operations Room is currently 50km to 100km from your proposed area of operations H.M.I will employ a repeater in conjunction with our standard VHF radio to cover the distance.

Inter-vehicle communications

Inter vehicle communication between the team’s poses no problems with the currently issued equipment when used in your area of operations,

Interpersonal communications

To allow ease of communication and as an aid to security when dispersed across any site all security personnel will carry a personal radio.

Back-up Communications

To ensure redundancy to the communications the team will carry Thuraya and GSM phones on the local networks.

Vehicle/Team Tracking

H.M.I. employs Track 24 TM and Astra tracking systems. All devices are monitored 24/7 by each of the systems Operations Centres. Both systems provide all users with an alerting facility. Should the device be triggered it initiates an immediate phone call to H.M.I. Centre establishing 2 way voice communications and simultaneously generates a GPRS / SMS message to our infrastructure.

In the Northern region primary monitoring is provided by our Regional Operations Centre based in Erbil. This will assume responsibility for the first line response along pr-­determined lines if an incident were to occur.