The preferred internal security services provider for all of our companies. TACSAR was born out of a necessity where we identified that there was a niche market for the recovery of missing persons. The basics of the business was to provide these services as a non cost bearing service to the community but has in the interim developed to a fully fledged security offering. TACSAR will be registered with the Security services board and will provide amongst others the following sercices both internally and externally to vendors.
Tactical Search and Rescue / Security and Response
TacSAR is a proud member of The TMB Group of Companies, our mandate is to provide services within the group of 18 companies and from that the expansion has been envisaged to external companies. We have associations with various service providers and can provide comprehensive security solutions which are offered as turn key solutions to our group associated companies and companies outside of the group.
Originally registered with the specific idea of providing the following services: Investigation, Intelligence, VIP Protection, Tracking, Escorting, Repo vehicles, various courses, Wildlife Training courses and Anti or Counter -Poaching Training, Firearm Training via associated registered and accredited partner companies as well as provide access to criminal and civil Legal Consulting via registered Attorneys, located and operating throughout South Africa.
We have built a reputation for excellence, integrity, impartiality, and accuracy. Our credentials, accreditations, and our national client list bears testimony to our performance.
The company is led by a professional team of diverse and well experienced professionals which offers a mix of complementary services and has a solid track record of successfully completed projects.
We serve a vast majority of clients with a diverse spectrum of businesses and individuals from every walk of life. TacSAR prides itself on cost-effective and efficient assistance to all clients and members.
The driving force behind our success is a clear and thorough understanding of what our respective clients’ needs are so that we can address those needs without fail to unlock real measured value.
Our capacity to deliver has been tested repeatedly and TacSAR prides itself with meeting the client’s mandate as per the brief and Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Services
Services
• Vehicle theft claims investigations
• Vehicle accident claims investigations
• Home Contents (Burglary) investigations
• Home owners (Damage) investigations
• Voice stress analysis. (Internal fraud)
• Polygraph analysis
• DNA KIT for persons / Kids in the event they go missing
• Investigation and tracking of missing people, specializing in persons, children, elderly
• Private investigations / Leading investigations
• Tracking devices for assets (i.e. vehicles, truck etc.)
• Tracking devices for people (i.e. children, Alzheimer patients etc.)
• Free trauma counselling
• Background / Criminal checks
• Tracing debt collectors
• VIP Protection
• Cheating spouses
• Observations inhouse and onsite and offsite private investigations
• Interrogation / Interviews
• Tracking and monitoring of Vodacom and MTN cell phones
• Forensic Investigations Services
• Intelligence Services
• Executive Protection Services
• Various courses is also available (See courses)
• Escorting vehicles / Money / Cargo
• Riot and Strike Control
• Guards and Risk assessment
• Alarm and CCTV installations
• Various courses (See below)
Forensic Investigations Services
• Vehicle accident claims investigations
• Home Contents (Burglary) investigations
• Home owners (Damage) investigations
• Voice stress analysis. (Internal fraud)
• Polygraph analysis
• DNA KIT for persons / Kids in the event they go missing
• Investigation and tracking of missing people, specializing in persons, children, elderly
• Private investigations / Leading investigations
• Tracking devices for assets (i.e. vehicles, truck etc.)
• Tracking devices for people (i.e. children, Alzheimer patients etc.)
• Free trauma counselling
• Background / Criminal checks
• Tracing debt collectors
• VIP Protection
• Cheating spouses
• Observations inhouse and onsite and offsite private investigations
• Interrogation / Interviews
• Tracking and monitoring of Vodacom and MTN cell phones
• Forensic Investigations Services
• Intelligence Services
• Executive Protection Services
• Various courses is also available (See courses)
• Escorting vehicles / Money / Cargo
• Riot and Strike Control
• Guards and Risk assessment
• Alarm and CCTV installations
• Various courses (See below)
Forensic Investigations Services
The increasing sophistication of white-collar crime in the Corporate and Public Sectors necessitates utilizing new investigative techniques to prevent, detect and respond to commercial and financial related crimes. TacSAR utilizes a Project Management approach which ensures a professional, sophisticated, and effective method of investigations.
Forensic Investigation requires a multi-disciplinary approach therefore TacSAR has associations with the relevant specialists in the Legal, Forensic Auditing, IT & Cyber Forensics; Project Management sectors and Law Enforcement Agencies.
Our services include, but are not limited to:
• Investigation of commercial and financial related crimes (fraud, corruption etc.);
• Forensic Auditing;
• Investigation of ALL crimes in general;
• Gathering of prima facie evidence within the legal framework and presenting evidence to the relevant authorities;
• Preparation of complainant and witness affidavits;
• Assistance in the criminal and civil prosecution process;
• Expert witness testimony in disciplinary, civil, regulatory, and criminal proceedings;
• Labour related/ workplace misconduct investigations;
• Investigations of procurement fraud, conflicts of interest, and sales kickback schemes (corruption);
• Project Management of investigations and the applicable legal actions/ processes.
• Forensic Auditing;
• Investigation of ALL crimes in general;
• Gathering of prima facie evidence within the legal framework and presenting evidence to the relevant authorities;
• Preparation of complainant and witness affidavits;
• Assistance in the criminal and civil prosecution process;
• Expert witness testimony in disciplinary, civil, regulatory, and criminal proceedings;
• Labour related/ workplace misconduct investigations;
• Investigations of procurement fraud, conflicts of interest, and sales kickback schemes (corruption);
• Project Management of investigations and the applicable legal actions/ processes.
Intelligence Services
Although publicly available information is helpful for background purposes, usually the best way to find out about the threat that some organizations and individuals pose is to obtain secret intelligence about their activities. We gather this information and use it to find out about organizations of interest and their key personalities, infrastructure, intentions, plans, and capabilities. If intelligence is worth recording, we ensure that this is done accurately. We clearly mark its origin and authenticity, and ensure that it can be retrieved swiftly. If we assess that a particular threat needs to be investigated, we deploy resources to obtain further intelligence, and we continually adjust our assessments in light of new intelligence or events
Our services include, but are not limited to:
• Intelligence Gathering;
• Data Analysis;
• Surveillance Services;
• Domestic & Criminal Tracking (Tracking & Tracing of Persons);
• Pre-Employment & Criminal Scans & Checks;
• Suspect Profiling & Intelligence;
• Placement / Briefing / De-Briefing of Undercover Agents;
• Polygraph Examinations & Profiling;
• Bank Investigations;
• Cellular Investigations & Cellular Monitoring;
• Security Project Management;
• Asses Assessment;
• Risk Assessment;
• Anti-Bugging;
• Asset & Vehicle Protection;
• Data Analysis;
• Surveillance Services;
• Domestic & Criminal Tracking (Tracking & Tracing of Persons);
• Pre-Employment & Criminal Scans & Checks;
• Suspect Profiling & Intelligence;
• Placement / Briefing / De-Briefing of Undercover Agents;
• Polygraph Examinations & Profiling;
• Bank Investigations;
• Cellular Investigations & Cellular Monitoring;
• Security Project Management;
• Asses Assessment;
• Risk Assessment;
• Anti-Bugging;
• Asset & Vehicle Protection;
Executive Protection Services
A new wrinkle in the fabric of VIP/Executive Protection emerged recently shifting emphasis from preventative measures to post-incident preparation and contingency planning. This trend towards reactive security has the ability to obscure the primary focus of VIP/Executive Protection in subtle ways. It is important, even critical, to know how to react and train to react properly, but reacting properly is not enough, especially if there are measures available to help avoid danger in the first place. The proper approach to VIP/Executive Protection has been, and always will be, preventative, proactive steps taken to reduce the likelihood of attack.
The objective of any Protective Mission is to prevent unintentional injury to the client (vehicle accidents, medical emergencies, natural disasters), avoid embarrassing situations (unwanted media attention, invasion of private life, intrusion into corporate affairs), and anticipate and avoid intentional attack (criminal threats, hijacking, kidnapping).
Our services include, but are not limited to:
• Threat Analysis (Investigative and Operational Activities);
• Constant analysis of the circumstances surrounding the assigned client in order to identify, evaluate and control potential risk;
• Protective Formations for weapons at close range and at a distance;
• Surveillance Detection for picking up of intelligence teams as they gather intelligence on the client and the Protective Detail;
• Protective Intelligence to determine if groups or individuals fit into any one of the attack categories that would threaten the client, causes him physical harm or embarrassment;
• Security Perimeters established to deny access to the client as much as is possible and to ensure that those that do have access do not pose a threat;
• Advance Work that considers any potential danger points;
• Motorcades to move the client quickly and safely through potential danger points;
• Security Mission Planning;
• Security Advance – Itinerary;
• Emergency Response
• Emergency Response represents a Reactive Element of a Proactive Security
• Program, and a critical element of that.
• Security Advance – Location;
• Security Advance – Transportation;
• Emergency Response.
Proactive Security can best be defined as a security program designed to anticipate and avoid danger. Proactive security suggests a comprehensive approach involving client threat analysis, advance planning and training for these threats, logistical sophistication designed to balance the comfort level of an assigned client with proper security procedures, and a thorough emergency/crisis management plan. VIP/Executive Protection Providers (Personal Protection Officer – “PPO”, or Close Protection Officer – “CPO”, Protective Security Detail – “PSD” and other Security Personnel) operate most effectively when they understand the risk facing their client, prepare to reduce or avoid those risks, and have the ability to react properly while maintaining a comfort level suitable to the client.
• Constant analysis of the circumstances surrounding the assigned client in order to identify, evaluate and control potential risk;
• Protective Formations for weapons at close range and at a distance;
• Surveillance Detection for picking up of intelligence teams as they gather intelligence on the client and the Protective Detail;
• Protective Intelligence to determine if groups or individuals fit into any one of the attack categories that would threaten the client, causes him physical harm or embarrassment;
• Security Perimeters established to deny access to the client as much as is possible and to ensure that those that do have access do not pose a threat;
• Advance Work that considers any potential danger points;
• Motorcades to move the client quickly and safely through potential danger points;
• Security Mission Planning;
• Security Advance – Itinerary;
• Emergency Response
• Emergency Response represents a Reactive Element of a Proactive Security
• Program, and a critical element of that.
• Security Advance – Location;
• Security Advance – Transportation;
• Emergency Response.
Proactive Security can best be defined as a security program designed to anticipate and avoid danger. Proactive security suggests a comprehensive approach involving client threat analysis, advance planning and training for these threats, logistical sophistication designed to balance the comfort level of an assigned client with proper security procedures, and a thorough emergency/crisis management plan. VIP/Executive Protection Providers (Personal Protection Officer – “PPO”, or Close Protection Officer – “CPO”, Protective Security Detail – “PSD” and other Security Personnel) operate most effectively when they understand the risk facing their client, prepare to reduce or avoid those risks, and have the ability to react properly while maintaining a comfort level suitable to the client.
SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS
Our group in general
TACSAR Search & Rescue is operated as an independent organisation operating under the auspices of an incorporated company not for gain (Section 21) known as TACSAR Ministries (Pty) Ltd. While primarily offering LOGISTIC SUPPORT for SEARCH & RESCUE operations, we are a multi skilled organisation with members trained to provide Off-Road Transport, Communications and Field Operative skills for any Emergency or Disaster situation. We provide a professional service to facilitate the smooth and efficient running of an operation for the Ultimate Benefit of the Casualty.
Logistics / Transport
We are able to transport relief and emergency supplies; evacuate casualties to ambulance or helicopter loading points; and assist with any number of logistical tasks. These tasks are carried out in a controlled and co-ordinated manner under the direction of the Incident Commander or a TACSAR senior member.
Communications
With our communication skills and equipment, we are able to assist in providing an enhanced message handling facility, thereby allowing more informed and accurate decisions to be made by the Incident Commander or planning team. This enables tighter control to be maintained over resources in the field. We are also able to assist with the relaying of radio communications in geographically difficult areas and between different organisations on land, sea and air.
Membership and Training
Anyone who has an interest in our activities is welcome to apply. Membership is divided into four grades:
Member,
Basic,
Intermediate and
Advanced.
Member,
Basic,
Intermediate and
Advanced.
Promotion to a higher grade requires the attainment of specific objectives including the passing of written, physical and team tests. As rescue operations are a team based operation if the member cannot operate within the team structure to the approval of Team Leaders then the member will be informed that further training and development is needed.
Members receive training in off-road driving techniques, logistics, radio communications, rope rescue, map and compass, in addition to allied subjects such as call out and operating procedures, incident management, helicopter-drills and search base operations. This enables the members in the unit to work effectively as a team as well as integrate with other organisations.
Definition
SAR is a collective effort co-ordinated by the Emergency Medical Services in the (EMS) that co-ordinates, manages and executes the search for, the medical treatment of and the rescue (or the recovery of mortal remains), of persons and/or patients whose health and/or safety is threatened or compromised in a Wilderness Environment (Mountains, Shorelines, Rivers, Kloofs, Non-mountainous wilderness areas, Caves, Deserts, Forests).
Primary Objective
Primary Objective
To place appropriate Emergency Medical Care at the side of the patient as quickly as possible and once stabilized to rescue the patient with due consideration of their medical condition.
TACSAR and its members aspire to provide, or to the best of their ability facilitate, the provision of the highest possible level of medical care deemed appropriate to a patient’s needs; adhere to the highest standards of medical ethics with respect to patient care, patient confidentiality and patient advocacy, as required by the medical profession and statutory law (HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT, 1974); and to actively foster a spirit of Goodwill between all the members of TACSAR.
TACSAR and its members aspire to provide, or to the best of their ability facilitate, the provision of the highest possible level of medical care deemed appropriate to a patient’s needs; adhere to the highest standards of medical ethics with respect to patient care, patient confidentiality and patient advocacy, as required by the medical profession and statutory law (HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT, 1974); and to actively foster a spirit of Goodwill between all the members of TACSAR.
It is constituted in terms of the HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT, 1974 (ACT NO. 56 OF 1974) and the REGULATIONS DEFINING THE SCOPE of the PROFESSION OF EMERGENCY CARE (No. R48 of 25 January 2002)
TACSAR Structure
As said above, TACSAR is a joint venture between the Provincial Governments of the South Africa, represented by the Directorate of Emergency Medical Services (Metro EMS), and the member organisations. This is the structure in which we work together:
Each Organisation, Group funded or volunteer, has a representative in the Management Advisory Committee (MAC) which decides on the future development of TACSAR.
APU – Anti Poaching Unit
APU – Anti Poaching Unit
Due to the ongoing war against poaching TacSAR is constantly upgrading our Anti-Poaching infrastructure, besides getting information from the national Anti-Poaching Intelligence, we use bush trap cameras that send images on real time through to our security team as early warning signs, we have recently added a permanent K9 units as part of our reaction and patrolling teams.
These armed guardians of our wildlife, work day and night doing fence patrols, snare sweeping across the reserve and they are deployed for ambushes in order to prevent wildlife crime. Added to this special unit, we also have the WILDLIFE PROTECTION AND MONITORING TEAM dedicated to guarding our prized wildlife under threat of extinction. We have also procured the services of ex SAPS officer from the endangered species unit who have joined us to protect not only Fauna but Flora as well thus ensuring we are able to protect our National Heritages for our group as well as offer these services on contract to emerging and existing reserves.
The protection, rehabilitation and survival of our wildlife is an absolute priority to the Management and Owners of TacSAR.
We are proud to announce a new volunteer opportunity in the Mpumalanga Highveld of South Africa. Selected recruits will have the opportunity to join patrols, assist with security, boost the team size, bring sponsored gear from TacSAR’s suppliers to the teams on the ground and share the enthusiasm to save our Fauna and Flora from poachers.
Spend time in the South African bush with the guys who live it day in and out. Have the opportunity to learn about the poaching crisis of our Fauna and Flora from the guys on the ground.
The program will put you into the field with those who have made a career out of saving wildlife in Africa. You can stay for a minimum of one week to up to twelve months.
Applicants will be provided food, gear for patrol, flight and transportation to the reserve. Each registration allows TACSAR to sponsor new equipment for the Anti-Poaching Unit with each selected Wildlife Guardian. Only one selected Wildlife Guardian will join the Anti-Poaching Unit at a time.
*Please note that due to restrictions of time, residency and African laws you will not be carrying a firearm and will be excused from the program if you are caught with one.
However you may carry forms of self defense gear, bear mace for longer reach, knife, taser, zip tie hand cuffs, bullet proof vest if you so choose.
We have standard requirements to provide the best overall experience for all involved.
You must
• Be 21 or older
• Be able to pass a drug test
• Have a clean criminal history
• Be able to pass a physical.
• TacSAR may require a basic PT clearance for each applicant.
• (30 pushups in less than a minute, 10 pull ups followed by 10 minute on 1500m bush run.)
• Have an Anti-Poaching, Police, Firefighter, Paramedic and or Military background of at least 3 years.(Comparable experience will be considered on the individual basis)
We will also accept Protrack Anti-Poaching Unit Graduates or Wildlife Campus Students who are busy with their theoretical training and Wildlife Campus Graduates with Letters of recommendation from Wildlife Campus or Certified compies of all Wildlife Campus Certification.
If you do not meet these requirements, yet, you can still qualify by attending our TacSAR Anti-Poaching part time short courses based on and utilising Wildlife Campus Material, evaluated by our approved training facilitator and external assessors. It will be your responsibility to enrol with Wildlife Campus and our trained staff can be of assistance with the process. A lot of the material is available online.
Once selected past the initial stage you will meet a TacSAR representative to interview and provide proof of the listed requirements.
Those interested in joining our Anti-Poaching, Wildlife Guardian program should write to The Director TacSAR with a one page reason for joining, including justifications for why we should select.
Various short courses offered
• Tactical infiltration
• Tactical medical
• Skydiving
• Aerial Surveillance by Motorised Para Gliders
• Aerial Surveillance by UAV/UAS
• UAV/UAS surveillance Pilot training – for permanent staff members only
• General recreational diving
• Emergency rescue diving
• Search and Rescue - Wilderness
• Search and Rescue – Urban
• Aero Medical
• Snake, snake bite identification
• Snake bite medical training
• First Aid Level 1
• First Aid Level 2
• First Aid Level 3
• Basic Ambulance Assistance
• Advanced Emergency Assistance
• Basic Life Support
• Advanced Life Support
• Trauma debriefing
• Hi Angle rescue
• Mountain and Wilderness Rescue and medical
• Operational Radio Techniques and practice
• African Survival Techniques
• Tracking Humans
• African Sign reading
• Fire prevention
• Bush Fire reaction · Urban Fire reaction
• Industrial Fire reaction
• Hazmat training
• Crime Scene Preservation
• DNA training
• Crime Scene Preservation Training
• Forensic Poaching Scene Training
• Forensic Poaching scene Analysis Training
• Investigative skills
• Reading and writing of reports
• Communication skills
• Interviewing skills and techniques, including body language interpretation
• Computer skills
• Incident management
• Incident control room management
• Advanced on road driving skills
• Advanced off road driving skills
• Drivers competency certificate Dept of Transport
• Hijack prevention driving skills
• Navigation skills GPS and map work
• GPS based tracking and surveillance
• Advanced Electronic intervention
• Skippers training for boat work
• Dog Handling · Rescue dog handling skills
• Explosive and IED training
• Drug identification and intervention skills
• Personal protection training
• VIP protection training
• Forensic investigation - Fraud, missing persons, etc
o Tactical weapons and weapon handling
o Handgun competency
o Shotgun competency
o Carbine competency
• Tactical medical
• Skydiving
• Aerial Surveillance by Motorised Para Gliders
• Aerial Surveillance by UAV/UAS
• UAV/UAS surveillance Pilot training – for permanent staff members only
• General recreational diving
• Emergency rescue diving
• Search and Rescue - Wilderness
• Search and Rescue – Urban
• Aero Medical
• Snake, snake bite identification
• Snake bite medical training
• First Aid Level 1
• First Aid Level 2
• First Aid Level 3
• Basic Ambulance Assistance
• Advanced Emergency Assistance
• Basic Life Support
• Advanced Life Support
• Trauma debriefing
• Hi Angle rescue
• Mountain and Wilderness Rescue and medical
• Operational Radio Techniques and practice
• African Survival Techniques
• Tracking Humans
• African Sign reading
• Fire prevention
• Bush Fire reaction · Urban Fire reaction
• Industrial Fire reaction
• Hazmat training
• Crime Scene Preservation
• DNA training
• Crime Scene Preservation Training
• Forensic Poaching Scene Training
• Forensic Poaching scene Analysis Training
• Investigative skills
• Reading and writing of reports
• Communication skills
• Interviewing skills and techniques, including body language interpretation
• Computer skills
• Incident management
• Incident control room management
• Advanced on road driving skills
• Advanced off road driving skills
• Drivers competency certificate Dept of Transport
• Hijack prevention driving skills
• Navigation skills GPS and map work
• GPS based tracking and surveillance
• Advanced Electronic intervention
• Skippers training for boat work
• Dog Handling · Rescue dog handling skills
• Explosive and IED training
• Drug identification and intervention skills
• Personal protection training
• VIP protection training
• Forensic investigation - Fraud, missing persons, etc
o Tactical weapons and weapon handling
o Handgun competency
o Shotgun competency
o Carbine competency
All the Weapons Training will be conducted in Pretoria and under the auspices of a certified and authorised Training Centre
• PSIRA Levels A-E training in conjunction with Certified Service Providers, all of our staff members will be PSIRA qualified and all our K9 Handlers and Animals will be PSIRA qualified and registered. All K9 trained animals will be vetted and certified as working animals by Braveheart Academy Rayton.
All other services are self-explanatory but feel free to set up a meeting to the discuss the merit of each service provided
TacSAR - Tactical Search and Rescue Security and Response.
PSIRA Registration in process
www.satacsar.co.za
