Chief Magazine
No20 (69) 2008
Business Protection
Today when the Russian business is at an advanced stage of development, more and more businessmen face the problem of protecting their business.
A well-run business with a stable income has always attracted dishonest and unscrupulous people. Today it has become the only opportunity for easy illegal money as the initial stage of ownership dispersal has come to its end. More and more often honest businesses are attacked on the physical, legal and technological levels. How can you protect your business and yourself and prevent those seeking to cheat your business from being successful?
Obviously effective protection of your business from attacks on many levels can be achieved through the establishment of a comprehensive security system. Currently many business leaders are realizing the necessity of this approach to security issues and have started working with major security companies, which not only provide a wide range of security services but also assume financial responsibility and insure risks. Unfortunately not all security companies offer such comprehensive approaches to their clients.
The Berkut Association is an exception to this rule. What distinguishes the Berkut Association from many others is a comprehensive approach to security covering all aspects. In addition to a wide range of security services such as the guarding of real and personal estate, security system installation of any complexity, surveillance and alarm systems, personal safety and escort of freights all over Russia, the Association also provides a strong legal support to their clients.
The integrated approach to the Association’s activities is reflected in various departments providing for its proper functioning. The Association even has its own line of design and production of uniforms for guards and security services. In 2004 the Association established its own training center Berkut-Cadet, licensed by the Ministry of Education, which provides training to staff for its own needs and for security services of the Association’s partners and clients. The school graduates obtain certificates for carrying out security and guarding activities. Over 1,200 people have successfully completed training in the Berkut-Cadet Centre.
The most important factor distinguishing Berkut from other security and guarding companies is its strategic approach. The Association is not just a hired third party for its clients but a professional partner with comprehensive solutions to multiple security issues. Due to its integrated approach Berkut is able to provide services at a lower price than other guarding and security companies in Nizhny Novgorod. The Association is among those two per cent of the Russian security companies, which have insured their activities for the Client’s benefit. It is obvious today that only strong, diversified and client-oriented security companies will be able to meet the clients’ demands in the future.
About the Company: The Berkut Association of Guard and Legal Companies is the largest private guarding company in the Nizhny Novgorod area, established in 1996. The Association comprises a number of private guarding companies, a legal firm and a training center for advanced training of security staff and guards. The Company currently has over 2,000 employees. Among Berkut’s clients are large industrial enterprises, such as Borsk JSC Bor Glass Plant, Nizhpharm JSC, PAZ JSC, ZMZ JSC, shopping centers, banks, schools and colleges, international representatives, with over 300 objects under our protection. The Association has branches in the cities of the Nizhniy Novgorod Area such as Pavlovo, Bor, Kstovo, Zavolzhie, Dzerzhinsk, Balakhna and Bogorodsk.
The Association is a founding active member of the Non-commercial Partnership “The Coordination Center of Security-Detective Structures” (Moscow, a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, certificate No. 515) with companies from 78 Russian regions; a member of the Nizhny Novgorod Association of Manufacturers and Entrepreneurs; an active member of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional public organization of veterans and members of the special forces unit of state security bodies "Vympel", participants of war actions and special operations "Vympel-N".