COMPANY PROFILE:
ARG
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MULTIMEDIA
“In brief, having formed partnerships with various clients
throughout the entertainment industry such as actors, producers
and video game developers, our primary goal is to utilise our
specialist, industry leading experience and professionalism
to consult on various projects in our relevant fields such as
military, firearms, intelligence, CQB, Surveillance and numerous
other skills.”
RECRUITMENT
“ARG recruitment aims to develop the ARG brand within the
industry whilst maintaining the very highest of standards
we set ourselves in every area of our business. One way we
believe we can maintain these standards is to place ARG trained
students into the field once they have achieved the expected
grade. We consider this tactic crucial to ARG. Having said that,
as previously mentioned, we work with experienced operators
who may want to expand their client database and improve
their networking.”
PMCI: Are you only based in the UK?
PH: “We have bases in London and the North of England,
however our footprint is global. Like the rest of the UK, a great
deal of our operational time is spent in Southern England but
have also made footprints in various parts of the world, not
least in South East Asia where we now have a ‘field office’ in
Kuala Lumpur.
As well as this, we are currently
in the process of setting up an ARG training facility in France to
cater for direct demand from the French for increased standards
of close protection. We have been fortunate enough to hold
contracts in Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia and the
Americas. In spending a number of years working with many
good people and building some great contacts we are very
fortunate to have people in many locations around the world,
not only in close protection but also in intelligence, firearms
training, surveillance, multimedia and many others.”
PMCI: How did you build your team?
PH: “One of the reasons I had taken so long to develop
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the various branches to ARG is because I needed the right
people to head them up. I needed people whose integrity and
professionalism could not be questioned and are yet again ‘cut
from the same cloth’. It has taken some time but we now have
the people we need heading up our branches with me at the
helm. Having said that, I am very much of the opinion that the
wisest man of all realises that on the scale of things he knows
nothing, so based on that, each of the directors and I bounce
off each other to make sure we are all heading in the right
direction and are upholding the values on which the company
was built.”
PMCI: What backgrounds make up your key players and
network of professionals?
PH: “As should be expected, I will not go into too much
depth with this, suffice to say we are all very fortunate to
be surrounded by people with an impressive array of skills
and experience, from the military, intelligence analysts and
operatives, the police, specialist firearms, business, law and
many more. I will say it again, I am truly blessed to be working
with people of such high calibre, not only in their vocation but
also in their character.”
PMCI: Where do you see the company growing?
PH: “For us, the main priority is to do the job and to do the
job right. There are some very big fish out there in the CP and
Intelligence world and we are confident with where we are
on that scale. We believe we have a winning combination of
factors that will carry us forward to even more success both
nationally and globally.”
PMCI: There are many companies out there who operate
within your industry, what makes you different?
PH: “I am not going to make out like we are the be all
and end all - that is not what we are about. There are many
companies out there, some good and some bad. There are some
good companies out there, a few of which we have a good
working relationship with. In answering the question however,
I will highlight our own plus points and those points which
differentiate us from others. Firstly, we pride ourselves on being
totally self-sufficient in all aspects of our training. We have our
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