The Global Advisor Kidnap & extortive crime | January 2025
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Control Risks’ Casework October to December 2024
Kidnap & ransom In the event of an acute crisis – be it kidnap for ransom, extortion, threat, illegal detention or a missing person – effective professional advice is critical. Control Risks is the leading global crisis response consultancy, assigned exclusively to Hiscox assureds. We consistently assist clients with more incidents each year than any other consultancy, giving Control Risks’ consultants an unparalleled level of relevant and recent expertise. Our Response team is immediately available to deploy anywhere in the world. We also have 39 offices worldwide and can provide immediate on-the-ground support to clients in the event of an incident. Control Risks maintains the only team of analysts in the industry that is dedicated to tracking kidnapping-for-ransom and other extortive crime trends globally. The team provides critical operational analysis to support consultants deployed to advise on the resolution of the kidnaps, detentions, threats and extortions affecting Hiscox policy holders. Using the world’s largest commercial database of kidnaps and extortion – currently containing details of more than 86,000incidents – and their understanding of local security dynamics, the analysts can provide tactical information for a given location, such as the average length of cases and typical concessions, as well as the identities of groups operating there and their motivations. The analysts carry out research and support incidents in multiple languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese.
The team also supports Hiscox policy holders with preventive kidnap and extortion analysis on the Global Risk Data online platform (brought to assureds by Hiscox as a benefit of the policy), and through bespoke consulting analysis tailored to assureds’ individual exposures.
Location of Control Risks’ cases
Number of cases per country
20 United States 12 Mexico 5 Ecuador 2 Haiti
Breakdown of cases
47% Threat
24% Kidnap
24% Threat Extortion
3% Detention
Afghanistan, Brazil, Cameroon, Ethiopia, France, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, UAE, Ukraine
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2% Missing Person
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