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Triple Canopy: How Companies Vet Their Employees
By Ignacio Balderas - former CEO and current Board of Directors Member
Monday, June 19, 2006, 11:40
“Private Security Firms: Standards, Cooperation and Coordination on the Battlefield” was held on Tuesday, June 13, at 2:00 pm in room 2247 Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC. The hearing was conducted by the Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations.
Transcripts and further information can be found here.
Mr. Ignacio Balderas
former CEO and current Board of Directors Member
Triple Canopy
Hiring Standards
Hiring standards vary widely within the industry. Triple Canopy’s recruiting and screening standards are among the industry’s most stringent.
Triple Canopy requires a minimum of four years of experience in military special operations assignments or four years of advanced police experience, current shooting skills and excellent health and physical witness. Our dedicated recruiting team conducts thorough phone interviews and checks multiple references, not from friends or peers, but from former supervisors of each candidate. We also conduct criminal and credit checks. We require strong performance, leadership skills, maturity, teamwork and a constant focus on safety and customer service.
Once candidates arrive at Triple Canopy’s training site, the screening process continues with drug tests and a physical fitness test.
We also conduct a comprehensive battery of psychometric evaluations, including the Profile XT, Wonderlic Personality Test, Short Employment Test Battery and Inwald Personality Inventory. Using our proprietary success-profile data, we have been able to identify those candidates with the highest likelihood of training success and operational performance. This unique proprietary tool gives us a distinct advantage over industry peers in the ability to deploy quality personnel.
As a testament to our best-in-class recruiting practices, Triple Canopy was the only private security company selected to describe its screening process at a recent international conference in Zurich, Switzerland, sponsored by the Swiss government and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Triple Canopy does not target active-duty units during our recruiting process.
Training Standards
Triple Canopy recruits receive training in defense tactics, advanced marksmanship, high-threat driving and the local escalation-of-force rules of engagement.
Our training produces highly capable operators who are prepared to perform demanding tasks in challenging, high-risk environments. Our instructors include Tier One U.S. Special Operations personnel with extensive and recent experience conducting security operations in high-threat environments worldwide.
We fully realize the grave responsibility of fielding protective details and will not compromise the safety of our clients by fielding anything less than the most qualified personnel, using our standards. Triple Canopy’s rigorous training program has an attrition rate of up to 30% among an already highly screened pool of students.
This level of selectivity is reflective of our uncompromising standards for performance, ethics, suitability for assignment to high-threat areas, aptitude, and demonstration of positive attitude and work ethic. I believe the quality and thoroughness of our recruiting and training within Triple Canopy is a major, contributing factor to our successes and safety record.