Senaca East Africa: A Leading Provider of Tailor-Made Security Solutions in the Region

Annette Kimitei, Managing Director of Senaca East Africa, gives an overview of the company. Senaca operates in Kenya and Uganda and focuses on 4 main areas: man-guarding solutions, security technology, risk management solutions and K-9 services.

“Senaca East Africa is a private security company that operates in Kenya and Uganda. We offer four key services. The first one is man-guarding solutions which is everything from security officers, dog handlers, CCTV operators, supervisors, project managers of man-guarding, etc. We also offer security technology. Technology is very wide from CCTV cameras to intruder alarm solutions, all through metal detectors and the like. We also offer risk management solutions such as background checks, due diligence of individuals and companies in business, investigations overt and covert, VIP protections, risk assessment and the like. And then we offer our K-9 services, which is most popularly known as the dog section. But what’s unique about our dog section is that we not only offer what you call the patrol dog, we also offer very unique explosives and narcotics detection dogs through our partnership with a company in Europe. Senaca’s first competitive advantage is that we are 19 years old, with experience in private security across East Africa. That experience has given us an opportunity to learn this landscape, but at the same time, we are still young enough to be able to be adaptive to the changing needs of both our clients as well as the threats that come in security. We also offer very tailored security solutions. For example, if you come to our aviation sector, you will find the products and services that are tailored to aviation are completely different from what you will find in manufacturing, hospitality security or residential security. We are also very keen on technology. We know that there has been a slow adoption of technology in Kenya, but we have set ourselves as a market leader when it comes to technology, and we are proud to have been awarded by the International Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPA’s) as the leading security systems integrator in the country. We also have international partnerships in very key areas. When it comes to issues of counterterrorism, we have partnered not only with Kenya’s National Counter Terrorism Center, but also with partners in Europe. When it comes to dogs, we have partners in Europe and Israel. So, our international partnerships offer the best solutions to our customers. Our tagline is “Global Best Practice Delivered Locally”. Senaca is a certified blue company. With the corruption challenges we have across Africa, and particularly in Kenya, a certified blue company is a business that stands for no corruption. It is an end-to-end assessment and commitment as a company when it comes to employment and all the way to dealing with our customers and suppliers. We are also diversity champions in the security sector. One of the awards we have won is leading gender diversity in security. For example, when it comes to the representation of women in security, in 2016 we realized that we had only 5% women employed in our company and by last year, despite 2020 being a very tough COVID year, we actually finished the year with 24% of our board and management being women and 18% in the field at guard posts. So, for a male-dominated sector, I think we are doing well. We definitely have a lot of room for improvement. Finally, Senaca has received many awards over the last three years. We have been awarded 16 times as a market leader and fastest growing security company in East Africa. We have also been awarded as an outstanding security contracts company, best manned security company of the year, and best security training provider, amongst many others. That is very important for us”, says Annette Kimitei.

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