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Integrated Risk Management Services (I-RMS) is the trading name of a private security company Business Mobile Security Services Ltd based in Naas, Ireland.I-RMS are licensed by the Private Security Authority, the statutory body responsibile for licensing and regulation of the private security industry in Ireland. It is also a member of the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA).

Services Provided

I-RMS provide the following services:

• Corporate: Business risk consultancy, Logistics security, National & international integrated security projects, Surveillance & counter surveillance.
• Standard Security: Guarding ,Cash in transit, Patrols/escorts, Key holding.
• Events Services: Corporate events, Special private occasions, Festivals, Concerts & sporting occasions, Door security personnel, Mobile ATMs.
• Special Services: Corporate & Private security consultancy, Onboard courier services, International security project management

Affiliates

I-RMS have a subsidiary, I-RMS Africa Ltd., based in Nairobi, Kenya. This subsidiary has formed a joint venture, KK Lodgit, with KK Security, one of Africa's largest security companies.

Notable Projects & Events

I-RMS provided security for the 2009 Dublin Pride Parade.

Corrib Gas Project

I-RMS works closely with An Garda Síochána to provide security for the various sites surrounding the landfall of the Corrib gas project pipeline at Glengad beach in Erris, County Mayo where protesters who are opposed to the pipeline route have sought to disrupt work.

Complaints have been made to the Private Security Authority that all 156 I-RMS employees working on the project do not wear correct identification. No formal action was taken, though the PSA has confirmed it was "working with" the company to ensure staff wore identification, commenting that it was the most monitored private security company in Ireland.

It denied involvement in two incidents related to the Shell Corrib project:

• An alleged assault on protester Willie Corduff at one of the compounds in April 2009, which resulted in his hospitalisation. The company later confirmed that employees had intended to remove Corduff, but found him standing up, and had him taken away by ambulance when he complained of chest pains.
• The sinking of a fishing boat belonging to another campaigner, Pat O'Donnell, in June 2009.

Michael Dwyer

I-RMS attracted considerable media attention following the revelation that a former employee, Michael Dwyer, shot dead by Bolivian police in April 2009, had worked for the firm on the Shell Corrib project. Dwyer had travelled to Bolivia with several other former I-RMS employees, supposedly to join a bodyguard training course, but ended up in the armed entourage of Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, who was also shot dead by police. Rózsa-Flores was suspected of attempting to subvert the government of Evo Morales. The media has speculated that the link between Dwyer and Rózsa-Flores was former I-RMS employee Tibor Revesz. Revesz is also a member of the Szekler Legion, a paramilitary group that wants autonomy for Hungarians living in Romania. Dwyer also befriended, in Ireland, another Legion member, Elod Toaso, who was arrested in the same Bolivia Incident. I-RMS's website previously offered 'special services' including 'international armed and unarmed security', but these were removed during updates after Dwyer's death.

References

1. http://www.i-rms.com/?content=management-profiles
2. http://www.i-rms.com/?content=management-profiles
3. http://www.i-rms.com/index.php?content=affiliates
4. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/newsfeatures/2008/0920/1221835120779.html?via=rel Policing costs mount as the Corrib clash moves closer to sea
5. ^ http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0623/1224249340410.html Irish Times - Corrib security firm 'most monitored'
6. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/10/rossport-gas-pipeline-shell
7. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0424/1224245293902.html
8. ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6639020.ece
9. http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/martin-rules-out-garda-role-in-dwyer-death-investigation-90818.html
10. 'The life and death of Michael Dwyer, http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0425/1224245355070.html
11. 'Corrib link to Irish man's death', http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6169658.ece
12. Times online Bolivian forces ‘found’ handgun in Dwyer’s room
13. online: Sister defends Dwyer’s comrade
14. Google cache of http://www.i-rms.com, retrieved 21 April 2009.

External links

• IRMS website

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