About
Born from close protection, built for the Senegalese field.
FIIT Protection Internationale is a Senegalese company founded in 2013 in Guédiawaye, licensed in 2017 and incorporated as a SUARL in 2018. Today it brings together around sixty licensed agents, field supervisors and a training centre.
Our story
Bringing head-of-state standards home to Senegal.
After the close protection detail of Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the United Arab Emirates from 2001 to 2006, then President Abdoulaye Wade's from 2008 to 2013, Mactar Diop founded FIIT in 2013 with one conviction: private security in Senegal deserves the same standard as the protection of the highest dignitaries.
The company started with guarding and event security, where its responsiveness and the bearing of its agents were quickly noticed. FIIT Academy followed, to train every recruit in-house, then opened to other organisations.
Today FIIT works on industrial sites, head offices, residences, wrestling bouts and concerts, and protects executives and delegations. Its base has not moved: Guédiawaye, opposite Ndiaréme market.
Mission and values
Protect without intimidating.
Our mission: give Senegal's companies, organisers and public figures private security at the level of the major international operators, with teams that know the ground.
Discipline
Punctuality, bearing, orders followed. A protection team's discipline shows before it is ever needed.
Anticipation
Reconnoitre, plan, know the exit before walking in. An incident avoided beats an incident well handled.
Respect
Our agents speak to visitors, supporters and neighbours with courtesy. Firmness does not exclude politeness.
Loyalty
Absolute confidentiality on assignments, full commitment to the client, and FIIT's loyalty to its agents.
The FIIT doctrine
- 01See
- 02Analyse
- 03Judge
- 04Act
Four steps taught to every agent, from the guard post to close protection: observe the ground, read the situation, decide fast, execute cleanly.
A word from the managing director
Mactar Diop, managing director and founder
“I spent years protecting heads of state. What I kept from it fits in one word: anticipation. That is what we teach every FIIT agent, from the guard post to close protection.”
Trained as a bodyguard since 1998, Mactar Diop served in the close protection detail of Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi from 2001 to 2006, then in that of the President of the Republic of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, from 2008 to 2013. A martial artist, he now directs FIIT's operations and designs the FIIT Academy programmes.
- 1998First steps in close protection
- 2001–2006Protection detail of Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, United Arab Emirates
- 2008–2013Protection detail of President Abdoulaye Wade
- 2013Founding of FIIT Protection Internationale in Guédiawaye
Media
FIIT on video
Management
A short chain of command.
Every site has a named, reachable manager who reports to the directors. Names and photos to be completed.
Head of operations
Set-up planning, supervisor rounds, day-to-day client relations.
Head of FIIT Academy
Training programmes, recruit assessment, in-company courses.
Site managers
One contact per client site: shift handovers, orders, logbook, incidents.
Administration, accounts and secretariat
Contracts, invoicing, agent payroll, administration.
Licences and legal identity
A registered, identifiable, accountable company.
Official certificates can be provided on request for tenders or contracting.
- Legal form
- SUARL under Senegalese law
- Trade register
- RCCM SN DKR 2018B 25776
- NINEA
- 007024839
- Date of incorporation
- September 26, 2018
- Registered office
- Route du lycée Limamou Laye, opposite Ndiaréme market, Guédiawaye, Dakar
- Managing director
- Mactar Diop
Since 2013
FIIT's milestones.
- 2013
Founding
FIIT Protection founded in Guédiawaye by Mactar Diop, on his return from presidential protection duty.
- 2017
Licence
Licence obtained to operate private security activities in Senegal.
- 2018
SUARL incorporation
FIIT Protection Internationale SUARL registered on 26 September 2018 in Guédiawaye (RCCM SN DKR 2018B 25776).
- 2021
FIIT Academy
Intensive course for twenty Senegalese wrestlers, training centre opened to other organisations.
- 2023
Around sixty agents
Structuring of supervision: site managers, administration, accounts, secretariat.
- 2026
New online presence
Launch of the bilingual site and the FIIT manuals online, after building a 33,000-follower Facebook community.
2021 and 2023 dates are indicative, to be validated by management.
Coverage
Dakar first, all of Senegal on assignment.
Our base is in Guédiawaye. Our teams cover the Dakar region daily and deploy to the regions for close protection, event or audit assignments.
Operational coverage
- Daily coverage
- On assignment
Dakar region · detail view
Want to meet the team?
We come to your site for a first analysis, with no commitment.