Lt. Col. Santokh Singh (Retd.),
Founder and Chairman, Checkmate Industrial Guards Pvt. Ltd.
Checkmate Industrial Guards Pvt. Ltd (CIGPL), one of the premier security services company in North India. The 23 Year old Agency has its roots out of Noida, Uttar Pradesh, with Humble beginning with Delhi NCR the company today provides services to a varied clientele across 11 states of the country. In the ever competitive environment Checkmate Industrial Guards Pvt. Ltd (CIGPL) has shown a steady growth and today stands at a turnover of INR 88 Crores and a robust strength of over 5000 Uniformed and non unionized security personnel. Under the able guidance of Lt. Col. Santokh Singh(Retd.) Founder and Chairman of CIGPL the agency has grown into a National player and he attributes the growth of the company to the Four Pillars of strength that he has built the company on. Employees, Clients, Compliance & Quality coupled with welfare for all its employees. This is the reason that we still have personnel on our rosters since the year of inception beams the modest Lt. Col. Singh. Mr. Kunwar Rahul Singh Salaria (Managing Director) adds that having transparency with our clients & Security personnel is the reason for having such a strong retention with our clients and personnel. Mr. Rahul Salaria who is an advocate of having strong processes & systems believes that the real mantra to success is the people of the orgnaisation and no matter how big or small any organization is it should never neglect its people and always be run by systems but driven by people. Apart from Manned Guarding Checkmate Industrial Guards Pvt. Ltd (CIGPL) provides a wide array of services ranging from Fire and Safety, Facility Management Services (Soft Services), Event Security Management, Security Consultancy, Training, Electronic
Security Systems. CIGPL is an ISO 9001: 2015 certified and works continuously to improve its systems, procedures and techniques. The Agency works on the premise of Having a very strong recruitment backbone to induct the best available talent and then concentrates on their training and periodic retraining. Since security is a job that gets weighed with a lot of responsibility hence training and retraining becomes an important aspect of the day to day working. The able and motivated team of Instructors under the guidance of the Training & recruitment head work relentlessly to provide training to each security personnel on the job apart from his initial training. The training topics for On the Job Training are prepared keeping in mind the requirements of the specific clients and are largely tailor made to suiting the requirements of the job at a particular clients location. Some of the major clients of the company are Hero MotoCorp Ltd, Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd, Saint Gobain Glass India, Honda Cars India Ltd, Honda Siel Power Products Ltd and many more which are spread across the Length and Breadth of the country. Coordinating with such wide spread clients requires having a very strong command and control which the Operations team takes care of. CIGPL has a strong network of its Operations team who are locally available to manage all the sites. Since CIGPL has an open door policy every security personnel and every client automatically gets connected to the Top Management. This makes the Complaint Management and Grievance redressal a much faster and effective process. This Also has a big impact on the retention of Security personnel and the Clients alike who are always connected. security is one vista which is not easy to operate in. When the life of a person could depend upon the security cover he or she is provided with, the entire dimension the security systems assume becomes different. Here comes in the dedication and the sincerity of the agency and the guards who are involved in this operation. CIGPL is firm about employing only those guards who are totally and fully committed to their work. This one trait of the company is so evident by the client retention rate which it is so proud of. This one characteristic of the company has given it the hallmark recognition of being a very zealous player in this field and one which is now considered in the top five names of reckoning in its arena.