Inkerman Group

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The Inkerman Group is an international private security company that reportedly monitors protestors. [1]

It was set up in 1996 by Gerald Moor, its CEO, 'to meet the specific intelligence and security needs of businesses'. [2]

Monitoring protestors

According to the Guardian, a "restricted" report produced by the Inkerman Group in 2008 warned of a growing threat of "eco-terrorism". Under a section on "recent acts of eco-terrorism", the document listed various peaceful campaign groups, including the anti-aviation collective Plane Stupid.[3] Arguably it has been this elusive threat of "eco-terrorism", sometimes tainted with the conflation between "illegal" and "violent" protest, that serves to justify the need for both the domestic extremism units and the private security firms.[4]

The company's website states that:

the group offers 'comprehensive surveillance and counter-surveillance service, and operates experienced in-house teams able to respond and be in place at a moment's notice. Services include specialist human surveillance as well as electronic measures.
The Inkerman Group utilises legal, ethical and wholly necessary covert surveillance techniques to detect and identify a crime or establish innocence. Services we offer include:
   :Covert surveillance
   :Installation of covert video / audio equipment
   :Technical Surveillance Counter Measures / electronic sweeps

The Inkerman Group’s investigations team works for clients across a diverse range of industries – they are highly trained, professionally qualified and extremely knowledgeable in this field. [5]


Transferable skills and alliances: police and private security industry

Questions have been raised regarding the ethics of "former police officers cashing in on their surveillance skills for a host of companies that target protesters".[3] See the Powerbase overview of the revolving door between the private security industry and the police.

Affiliations

People

  • Lord Peter Imbert, a former Met commissioner. He was Chairman of Capital Eye Ltd, a security consultancy now wholly owned by the Inkerman Group, for which he acts as a consultant.[6]

Clients

The client base includes multinational corporations, companies, governments and private individuals for which the company provides the full range of security and intelligence services.

Contact

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Resources

Notes

  1. Paul Lewis and Rob Evans, Green groups targeted polluters as corporate agents hid in their ranks, The Guardian 14 February 2011
  2. Inkerman Group, The Company, company website, acc 5 January 2010
  3. 3.0 3.1 Paul Lewis and Rob Evans Green groups targeted polluters as corporate agents hid in their ranks The Guardian, 14/02/11, accessed 14/02/11
  4. Matilda Gifford Why spy on peaceful protesters? The Guardian, 26/04/09, accessed 17/01/11
  5. Inkerman Group, Surveillance, company website, acc 5 January 2010
  6. Lord Imbert, www.parliament.co.uk, 5 January 2011

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