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Erinys International
Industry private security
Founded 2001
Founder Jonathan Garratt
Website https://www.erinys.net/
Erinys International is a British private security company registered in the
British Virgin Islands. The Group operational HQ is in Dubai, UAE and other offices
are in Andover, Hampshire (Erinys UK Ltd) and Johannesburg (Erinys South Africa
Ltd).
Erinys International has subsidiaries in the UK, South Africa, Democratic Republic
of Congo and Republic of Congo and associated companies in Iraq and Nigeria.[1]
Erinys Group companies provide security and support (for example: communications
and logistics) services for personnel and assets, except for Erinys South Africa,
which specialises in the provision of ongoing and ad hoc risk evaluations of
countries and projects particularly in Africa.
Origin of the name

The word "Erinys" refers to the avenging deities in Greek religion, who lived at
the entrance to the Underworld. Their first duty was to see to the punishment of
those who had committed some crime in the world above, but had arrived at Hades
without obtaining absolution from the gods. Sometimes this duty extended to the
world of men, where the Erinys (also called Dirae, Furiae, Eumenides or Semnae)
would pursue criminals, at the behest of Nemesis, permitting the fugitive no rest.
Staff
Erinys International was founded by Jonathan Garratt (a retired British Army
officer) in 2001. In 2002, Erinys South Africa was formed after acquisition of the
risk assessment business of Strategic Concepts Pty Ltd, a company formed by Sean
Cleary (a former South African diplomat), who was a director of Erinys
International until he resigned in 2003 after the company secured its first
contract in Iraq.
The Group was further strengthened with the arrival of Alistair Morrison OBE MC in
early 2003 until his departure in March 2004 to take up a senior position in Kroll.
Alastair rejoined the Executive Board in December 2008.
Iraq
Erinys Iraq Ltd was registered in BVI in August 2003 (and subsequently in Iraq) and
was granted a contract by the Coalition Provisional Authority to recruit and train
an Oil Protection Force (OPF) for the Iraq Ministry of Oil. Initially the
requirement was for 6,500 personnel to guard designated pipelines and
installations, but this grew over the period of the contract to reach 16,000 Iraqi
staff guarding 282 locations and included an aerial surveillance capability. The
OPF contract ended in December 2004 with the transfer of the Force and its assets
to the Ministry of Oil. An account of the OPF is available at www.erinys.net
Other significant contracts in Iraq included the provision of reconstruction

security and support services to the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Gulf Region
Division (GRD). The principal role of Erinys support to the GRD mission across Iraq
was to provide security escort services for civilian personnel whose role was to
monitor reconstruction projects in Iraq. Erinys also furnished the GRD with a
nationwide radio communications network and specialist security survey and
assessment services.
Controversy
Erinys was at the centre of a row in 2004 when it emerged that its employees had
mistreated a prisoner whilst in their custody. Photos supplied to the British
newspaper The Observer revealed that the 16-year-old Iraqi youth they were
interrogating in a garage in Kirkuk had been restrained with six car tyres around
his body.[2] The boy looked to be frozen in fear in a room riddled with bullet
holes. The newspaper was also told that the prisoner had been denied food and water
for 24 hours.[2] Erinys denied the allegations, saying that the boy was released
unharmed after minutes to his father. One of the employees pictured in the photo
however was later suspended from duty.[2]
Waking the Dead

In April 2005, the BBC television series Waking the Dead aired an episode entitled
"Duty and Honour" which featured a character named John Garrett.[3] The fictional
Garrett was a former British Army officer who left to set up a private security
company. In May 2008 the BBC issued an apology, clarifying that the murderer and
war criminal featured in the show was entirely fictional and not intended to bear
any resemblance to the real Jonathan Garratt and that his company was not in any
way based on Erinys International.
Notes
http://www.erinys.net/#/about-us/4531362948 Erinys International About Us.
Antony Barnett and Patrick Smith (14 November 2004). "British guard firm 'abused
scared Iraqi shepherd boy'". The Guardian.
www.imdb.com
External links
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