The founder
Mactar Diop
Managing director · Operations
A soldier by training, from the Senegalese Army to the palaces of Abu Dhabi and the presidency of the Republic of Senegal. Since 2013 he has put that standard at the service of companies and families — and passes it on to every FIIT agent.
- Volunteer enlistment · Senegalese Army
- 1996
- State details — UAE and Senegal
- 2
- FIIT founded in Guédiawaye
- 2013
A word from the founder
A life spent watching over others.
My commitment began in 1996, when I enlisted as a volunteer in the Senegalese Army. I was trained at the Momar Gary Instruction Centre in Bango, Saint-Louis — a centre known for its demands and its discipline. That training forged the fundamentals that are FIIT's DNA today: rigour, respect for procedure and a sense of duty.
Assigned to the 1st Infantry Battalion, I served my full legal term, extended for service requirements. I was discharged in 1998 with the Certificate of Good Conduct — the mark of an impeccable record.
Then came Abu Dhabi: five years in the close protection detail of Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, where protocol tolerates no approximation. Then the Republic's palace, three years with President Macky Sall — the crowds, the movements, decisions made in a second.
In 2013 I came back to Guédiawaye with one conviction: Senegal deserved private security at the level I had known. It is on those military values that I built FIIT — a house that does not train guards, but contract close-protection agents who respect the law, professional and operating to international standards. And a first: a certified female close-protection unit.
Mactar Diop
Managing director and founder, FIIT Protection Internationale
Military origins
It all begins in uniform.
1996-1998: enlisted as a volunteer in the Senegalese Army, trained at the Momar Gary Instruction Centre in Bango, Saint-Louis. That is where the rigour, discipline and respect for procedure that are FIIT's DNA were forged.
At the forward post — Senegalese Army.
On guard, weapon in hand.
Camaraderie, at camp.
Military values at the foundation of FIIT Training: not guards, but contract close-protection agents, law-abiding and operating to international standards.
Service record
From 1996 to today.
1996 → today
A verifiable journey, from the Senegalese Army to the palaces, to the training centre in Guédiawaye.
1996
Volunteer enlistment — Senegalese Army
Enlisted as a volunteer in the Senegalese Army (class 96/1), trained at the Momar Gary Instruction Centre in Bango, Saint-Louis: rigour, discipline and respect for procedure.
1996–1998
1st Infantry Battalion
Assigned to the 1st Infantry Battalion; two-year legal term, extended for service requirements — a mark of the command's trust.
1998
Certificate of Good Conduct
Discharged from military service, holder of the Certificate of Good Conduct: the distinction of an impeccable record.
2001–2006
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Protection detail of Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan: state protocol, escorts, residences.
2009–2012
Presidency of the Republic of Senegal
Protection detail of President Macky Sall: official travel, crowds, coordination with public forces.
2013
FIIT Protection founded
Return to Guédiawaye and creation of the company, with training as its foundation.
2017To be confirmed
Licence
Licence obtained to operate private security activities in Senegal.
2018
SUARL registration
FIIT Protection Internationale SUARL, registered on 26 September 2018 in Guédiawaye (RCCM SN DKR 2018B 25776).
2021 →To be confirmedOngoing
FIIT Academy
Intensive course for twenty Senegalese wrestlers; the training centre opens to other organisations.
Today
Around sixty agents
Running operations, designing the Academy programmes and personally overseeing sensitive deployments.
2017 and 2021 dates are indicative, to be confirmed by management.
What he passes on
Three reflexes, taught to every agent.
What twenty-five years alongside heads of state left behind, the FIIT Academy passes on to every class.
Anticipation
Be in position one minute before the incident, not one minute after. Reading places and habits is part of the job.
Discipline
Impeccable dress, punctuality, reporting. Visible rigour is already deterrence.
Transmission
Knowledge kept in one head protects no one. Every mission feeds the FIIT Academy programmes.
In the field
The standard, in pictures.
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Meet the management.
For a sensitive deployment you talk directly to Mactar Diop. Describe your need: he answers with a plan.