WTO accession and our private security structures

[Детективное агентство. Инициатива. Самара.]

What will happen on the Russian market of commercial security services after Russia joins the World Trade Organization (WTO)? This question is increasingly being asked by professionals from non-state security structures (NSS). According to the rules of the WTO, a member country of an organization is not entitled to restrict the entry of foreign companies from member states of the world trade "club" to the domestic markets.

The market for security services in Russia is a very specific industry. Thousands of former employees of special services and law enforcement agencies found employment in it. In fact, they are doing what they did at their previous places of work - intelligence, counterintelligence and security, but now in the interests of business. What will happen if foreigners come to this market - with their own standards, methods and personnel - is unknown.

There are certain concerns, which follows from the words of Sergey Morozov, president of the Alternative Security-M holding of commercial security, who answered questions from the chief editor of NatsBez.ru Sergey Malinin.

- In your opinion, are the fears of many participants in the security services market in Russia justified that with the entry of our country into the WTO, foreign competitors will flood here?

- My opinion is this: all large companies (I know from the example of IKEA) work all over the world with one law firm, one consulting company, and one security structure. This is the concept of the company itself. They like, for example, Group4, they work with it, they like Arthur-Anderson, for example, they work with it around the world. Based on this, the fact that for us there will be some kind of threat from foreign companies is unequivocal. How willing they are to work in Russia is another question. But there is one western structure that works here in the Russian version. They bought up very strong managers who worked before in various security and detective enterprises. Therefore, this team is very serious and strong, and this structure is already working in the interests of five foreign companies.

“How long has she been working here?”

- For two years now we have been watching them. Therefore, when the time comes, I think it will turn into a Western company, and will bear the name that they want to hear. Recently, I was at the annual detective conference in Las Vegas, so everyone there is looking with great interest and enthusiasm for 2006 (the tentative date for Russia's entry into the WTO is approx. Ed.): That they will work quietly, without intermediaries, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc. Therefore, it cannot be said that this does not threaten us. This is not true. The market is too attractive, and it is much more economically efficient, much more profitable. Therefore, a redistribution of the market is possible here, especially security services, because a too large piece is floating.

- Would Russian non-governmental security structures be able to work in the Western market?

- I think not, not one of our companies will pass certification. They do not meet international standards that Western customers are used to. Therefore, it is too early for us to work on the international market, it’s too early to even talk about it.

- In the 90s, western businessmen working in Russia, the Russian NSS were interesting in that people with connections in the special services who knew how to solve complex issues worked in these structures. How relevant is it now? How important is this important competitive advantage for Russian security agencies?

- Yes, there are very strong specialists in our structures. I can even name a number of companies where super-professionals work, and not all foreign companies have such specialists. These people went through hardening just in our special services and for some up to 10 years of work experience in our security services. Therefore, foreign companies will simply buy these people.

- Are they interested in buying up existing companies?

- They will buy them, but this is not the principle by which the West works. In the Russian company, perhaps 20% of super-professionals, and the rest - mediocrity, i.e. they must be kicked out, to recruit new ones. It is still unknown what kind of company this is, what debts are behind it. Foreigners mostly work from scratch. Moreover, Russia is a “mysterious country”, so it’s easier for them to create their own company and buy up specialists than to work on some kind of ready-made site. If we were talking about an oil company, then it is clear: there are assets and everything is there. And the average Russian security company is all on paper, there are computers, and several cars. These are not assets that can be bought up.

 

[Детективное агентство. Москва. Арбат.]

2006 has already passed)))
In 2008, I defended a Ph.D. thesis, closely related to entry into the WTO, and things, as they say, are still there)

 

[Частный детектив. Timofey. Челябинск.]

Thanks, very interesting.

By the way, in 2009 there was such a topic discussed in the ARD at the conference.

 

[Детективное агентство Тула]

Informative.

 

[Плотников Юрий Михайлович]

Thank.

 

[Частный детектив Киев.]

What will happen on the Russian market of commercial security services after Russia joins the World Trade Organization (WTO)? This question is increasingly being asked by professionals from non-state security structures (NSS). According to the rules of the WTO, a member country of an organization is not entitled to restrict the entry of foreign companies from member states of the world trade "club" to the domestic markets.

The market for security services in Russia is a very specific industry. Thousands of former employees of special services and law enforcement agencies found employment in it. In fact, they are doing what they did at their previous places of work - intelligence, counterintelligence and security, but now in the interests of business. What will happen if foreigners come to this market - with their own standards, methods and personnel - is unknown.

There are certain concerns, which follows from the words of Sergey Morozov, president of the Alternative Security-M holding of commercial security, who answered questions from the chief editor of NatsBez.ru Sergey Malinin.

- In your opinion, are the fears of many participants in the security services market in Russia justified that with the entry of our country into the WTO, foreign competitors will flood here?

- My opinion is this: all large companies (I know from the example of IKEA) work all over the world with one law firm, one consulting company, and one security structure. This is the concept of the company itself. They like, for example, Group4, they work with it, they like Arthur-Anderson, for example, they work with it around the world. Based on this, the fact that for us there will be some kind of threat from foreign companies is unequivocal. How willing they are to work in Russia is another question. But there is one western structure that works here in the Russian version. They bought up very strong managers who worked before in various security and detective enterprises. Therefore, this team is very serious and strong, and this structure is already working in the interests of five foreign companies.

“How long has she been working here?”

- For two years now we have been watching them. Therefore, when the time comes, I think it will turn into a Western company, and will bear the name that they want to hear. Recently, I was at the annual detective conference in Las Vegas, so everyone there is looking with great interest and enthusiasm for 2006 (the tentative date for Russia's entry into the WTO is approx. Ed.): That they will work quietly, without intermediaries, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc. Therefore, it cannot be said that this does not threaten us. This is not true. The market is too attractive, and it is much more economically efficient, much more profitable. Therefore, a redistribution of the market is possible here, especially security services, because a too large piece is floating.

- Would Russian non-governmental security structures be able to work in the Western market?

- I think not, not one of our companies will pass certification. They do not meet international standards that Western customers are used to. Therefore, it is too early for us to work on the international market, it’s too early to even talk about it.

- In the 90s, western businessmen working in Russia, the Russian NSS were interesting in that people with connections in the special services who knew how to solve complex issues worked in these structures. How relevant is it now? How important is this important competitive advantage for Russian security agencies?

- Yes, there are very strong specialists in our structures. I can even name a number of companies where super-professionals work, and not all foreign companies have such specialists. These people went through hardening just in our special services and for some up to 10 years of work experience in our security services. Therefore, foreign companies will simply buy these people.

- Are they interested in buying up existing companies?

- They will buy them, but this is not the principle by which the West works. In the Russian company, perhaps 20% of super-professionals, and the rest - mediocrity, i.e. they must be kicked out, to recruit new ones. It is still unknown what kind of company this is, what debts are behind it. Foreigners mostly work from scratch. Moreover, Russia is a “mysterious country”, so it’s easier for them to create their own company and buy up specialists than to work on some kind of ready-made site. If we were talking about an oil company, then it is clear: there are assets and everything is there. And the average Russian security company is all on paper, there are computers, and several cars. These are not assets that can be bought up.

This is an interview for 2005.

Although it is relevant today and not only for Russia. Thank.

But again there are inaccuracies with the filing of journalists -

In 2005 in Las Vegas was the first ever International Investigators Conference of Private Investigators World Investigators Conference (WIC) - WIC2005. (In 2010, Dallas hosted the second international conference of private detectives WIC2010. In 2015, there will again be a third conference in Las Vegas.)

Some statements by my very respected Sergey Morozov reporters were incorrectly interpreted and even changed ..

 

[НСК-СБ]

Thank you, Vitaliy - interesting!

 

[Частный детектив. Тайный советник. Омск.]

Thanks for the material, Vitaliy. I read the article with pleasure.

 

[Евгений СБ]

Thank.

 

[Частный детектив Нижний Новгород]

I believe that the "wise" step of joining the WTO will bring us the placement of harmful industries on our territory, new chemical and radioactive burial grounds, the funeral of small and medium-sized businesses, and of course - with a wide and kind Russian soul (take everything I feel sorry for) pumping out, exhausting , squeezing all the natural resources "half a tobacco". Why do we need a war, the bussurmans understood that you won’t take Russian war, and thus supposedly be taken to "our company" ... There is a good song from the fairy tale about Pinocchio about a fool "... A fool does not need a knife, he ... . and do whatever you want ... "