During a recent trip to London, Greg Sutton and representatives of our sales team had the opportunity to visit with Simon Adamsdale, Head of Crisis Response, and his incredible team at the Head Office of Control Risks. Control Risks, is the world’s leading provider of crisis management and kidnap incident response services, as well as the foremost political and security risk consultants worldwide.
One of the highlights of the visit was seeing the 24-hour call centre, where the first notification of an incident arrives, triggering those critical first steps of the response team. All Control Risk operatives are former RCMP, MI5, CIA and FBI. With over 30 years of response experience and 15 offices on 5 continents, Control Risks has responded to approximately 1400 cases or almost 34,000 case-days in 104 countries. This vast experience has amounted to a 25,819 case database, which assists them with an average of 30 abduction cases and 38 extortion cases encountered per year.
To aid in quick resolution and incident management, Control Risks maintains their very own in-house forensic laboratory including the following services:
- DNA testing
- Finger print, handwriting and taped communication analysis
- Chemical and physical analysis
- Voice recognition
- Computer forensics
SUTTON & CO has been providing Kidnap, Ransom, & Extortion (K&R) coverage through the Hiscox syndicate for over twenty years. The most valuable feature of our product has been the exclusive expert crisis assistance of Control Risks. With offices on every continent, Control Risks’ worldwide negotiation team is on call 24 hours a day to travel anywhere in the world to provide emergency crisis assistance in the event of an insured kidnap or extortion event.
Kidnappers often focus on foreign workers of international companies presumed to have the resources for ransom payments. On July 5th, gunmen snatched a 3 year-old daughter of a British oil worker in Nigeria.
K&R provides peace of mind to the insured and their family and the cost of a broad, high limit plan can be surprisingly reasonable. From business people traveling to various regions of the globe to high profile Canadians in their own country, the service and protection provided is invaluable.
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