Inkerman Group

The Inkerman Group is an international private security company that reportedly monitors protestors. Paul Lewis and Rob Evans, Green groups targeted polluters as corporate agents hid in their ranks, The Guardian 14 February 2011 Former Met commissioner Lord Peter Imbert acts as a strategic consultant for the group.Lord Imbert, www.parliament.co.uk, 5 January 2011 
It was set up in 1996 by Gerald Moor, its CEO, 'to meet the specific intelligence and security needs of businesses'. Inkerman Group, The Company, company website, acc 5 January 2010 It describes itself as 'a specialist risk, intelligence and investigation company', and has offices in Ashford, London and Köln.
==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. 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.Matilda Gifford Why spy on peaceful protesters? The Guardian, 26/04/09, accessed 17/01/11
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 Inkerman Group, Surveillance, company website, acc 5 January 2010 
:Our highly qualified and experienced in-house teams have specialist knowledge across a wide range of issues including fraud, business traveller safety, event security, terrorism, pandemic, kidnap, extortion and all types of protest and extremism. Inkerman Group, Risk Assessments, acc 5 January 2012 
==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".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 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.Lord Imbert, www.parliament.co.uk, 5 January 2011 
==Former consultants/staff==
*John Holmes (ex-SAS)
==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==
:Address:
:Inkerman House
:3-4 Elwick Road
:Ashford
:Kent TN23 1PF
:United Kingdom
:Website:http://www.inkerman.com/gb/home
:Twitter at @inkermangroup 
:Blog http://blog.inkerman.com/
===Notes===
Category:Spooks]Category:Climate ChangeCategory:Corporate EspionageCategory:Security Industry