Questions answered plainly

No. Special Frontier Force, as represented by this website, is an independent private security and protection organisation. It is not the Special Frontier Force of India, and it is not affiliated with the Government of India, the Indian Armed Forces, any intelligence organisation or any other government agency.

This website does not by itself establish any such affiliation, and none should be inferred from the organisation's name. If an official ownership, authorisation or affiliation were ever established and independently verified, it would be stated here explicitly and in terms a reader could check.

We state this prominently rather than in small print because it is the thing a visitor most needs to know, and because a name in this sector can carry an association that a private organisation has no right to borrow.

We work with appropriately qualified former military, special-operations, protective-security, law-enforcement and specialist personnel where this is legally permitted. Any individual's background must be independently verified, and their engagement must be lawful in the jurisdiction concerned, before they are engaged.

We do not publish the names, service histories, unit affiliations, ranks or decorations of the individuals we work with, and we do not identify which former services any of them came from. Publishing that material would compromise the privacy and security of those individuals, and a client would have no practical means of verifying it in any case.

Most importantly, a former affiliation of any kind confers no current authority. See the next question.

No. Previous military, security or government service does not confer current government authority, law-enforcement powers or intelligence-service status.

A person who has left such a service is a private individual. They retain their experience; they do not retain the powers, legal protections, access or mandate of the organisation they served, and no private employer can restore any of those things.

In practice this means our specialists hold no police powers, no powers of arrest beyond those available to any member of the public in the relevant jurisdiction, no investigative authority and no governmental mandate. They act only within the legal authority and professional scope applicable to their assignment. Full standards position

Yes, subject to legal and operational requirements. Executive protection is offered only where protective work is lawful for private providers in the jurisdiction concerned, where personnel hold any licence that jurisdiction requires, and where work authorisation and appropriate insurance are in place.

Every protective engagement begins with an assessment rather than a quotation. The assessment establishes whether protective personnel are justified at all — and in a proportion of cases the honest recommendation is a lighter arrangement based on planning, routine adjustment and information handling.

Executive protection in detail

International work is assignment-specific and subject to local law and licensing. We do not publish a list of countries, and we do not claim a presence, office or standing capability anywhere.

When a cross-border requirement arises, it is assessed against local law, licensing, work authorisation, immigration, insurance, contractual requirements, the availability of licensed local partners and relevant cultural considerations. Only after that assessment can we say whether anything can lawfully be delivered.

Sometimes the answer is that it cannot. In those cases we may be able to provide remote advisory support or pre-travel preparation, or to introduce an appropriately licensed local provider — but we will not deliver restricted activity under a different description. International approach

Yes — focused on lawful safety, awareness and defensive principles. Training emphasises situational awareness, prevention, de-escalation and responsible decision-making, with lawful defensive response taught as a last resort.

Training is intended for lawful defensive and personal-safety purposes and does not promote violence, vigilantism or unlawful weapons use. We do not teach offensive technique, weapons use, evasion of lawful authority, or surveillance and counter-surveillance tradecraft.

Training programmes

Requirements vary by role and jurisdiction, but the following must be established for every individual before engagement: verified identity; lawful authorisation to work in the jurisdiction of the assignment; proportionate background verification conducted with the individual's consent; current, valid qualifications relevant to the role; any licence the jurisdiction requires for the activity; assessed professional suitability; written confidentiality undertakings; and a written contract with appropriate insurance.

Where a licence is required and cannot be obtained, the activity is not performed. Verification is repeated for each assignment rather than assumed to remain valid indefinitely. How we verify specialists

Client information is handled on a need-to-know basis under written confidentiality undertakings binding on everyone engaged on an assignment. Personal data is collected only where necessary for a defined purpose, held securely, shared only as the engagement requires, and retained no longer than necessary. Assessment documents are sensitive, and their distribution is agreed in advance and controlled.

We do not use client identities as references or marketing material, and we do not publish case studies.

We will not, however, offer an absolute guarantee. No organisation can responsibly promise that information will never be compromised in any circumstance, and a provider who does is making a claim they cannot support. What we can commit to is a defined standard of handling, a limited circle of people, and an honest account to the client if something goes wrong.

There are also limits imposed by law: we comply with lawful obligations to disclose, and we will not conceal information about a criminal offence.

Only what is necessary for an initial assessment of whether we can assist: the general nature of the requirement, the approximate location or locations, the timeframe, and how best to contact you. That is usually enough for a first conversation.

Please do not submit classified, government-restricted, operationally sensitive or confidential third-party information through this website. Specifically, do not send detailed itineraries, residential addresses, security arrangements, staff details, documents or anything you would not want to exist in an email inbox.

Detail is exchanged later, through appropriate channels, once confidentiality arrangements are in place and both parties have established that an engagement is worth pursuing.

We do not claim certifications, accreditations or memberships on this website. Where a specific licence, registration or certification is required for a particular engagement, it is confirmed for that engagement and evidenced to the client.

We take this position because unverifiable accreditation claims are common in this sector and are of no value to a client who cannot check them. An organisation that lists impressive-sounding credentials it cannot evidence has told you something about how it treats other claims.

If you require evidence of licensing, insurance or qualification for a proposed engagement, ask — and expect to receive it in writing before anything begins.

Yes, and regularly. We decline work that cannot be performed lawfully in the relevant jurisdiction; work requiring a licence that cannot be obtained; offensive activity of any kind; surveillance of individuals, interception of communications or covert intrusion; debt collection, eviction, enforcement or anything involving coercion; instruction that would facilitate violence or the evasion of lawful authority; and any activity reserved by law to government bodies or licensed local operators.

We also decline work whose purpose or foreseeable effect is the intimidation, harassment or suppression of any person, and work where we judge that we lack the competence to deliver it to an acceptable standard.

Where we decline, we say why. In many cases we can suggest a lawful alternative approach.

Contact Mr. Digant Sharma by telephone on +91 97699 99960 or by email at im@digantsharma.com, or use the enquiry form on the contact page. Initial conversations are confidential and without obligation.

From there the sequence is: a first conversation to establish whether we can help; an assessment proportionate to the requirement; a written proposal setting out scope, personnel, compliance position, duration, review points and cost; and then delivery within that agreed scope, with review. Nothing is delivered before it has been defined in writing.

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