Guards on the ground.
Eyes in the air.
Intelligence on the inside.
Physical guarding, armed response, transport escorting and VIP close protection — for mining, industrial and commercial sites across Gauteng, run by people whose evidence has to stand up afterwards. With certified drone patrols overhead, camera analytics watching what no control room can, and insider-threat work on the people who make loss possible.
24/7 office and call-out. Officers individually PSIRA-registered. SACAA-certified remote pilots operating under an RPAS Operator Certificate. Several operating mines currently under contract.
What we deploy.
Nine service lines, run in-house by PSIRA-registered personnel. Deployed together on a mine, or singly wherever the exposure sits.
Mining security
Layered protection for shafts, plants, stockpiles and perimeters. Armed deployment and access control against illegal mining and syndicate theft, planned from a site assessment rather than a headcount.
Armed response
Verified activations, GPS-dispatched vehicles, fast armed reaction. Scene secured, occupants assisted, clean handover to SAPS or to your own team, with a written report every time.
Physical guarding
Vetted, individually PSIRA-registered officers for mining, industrial, commercial and residential sites. Supervised patrols, accountable shifts, documented handovers and posted instructions that are actually enforced.
Access control & search
Gate control for people, vehicles and loads. Personal and vehicle searching to written procedure, visitor and contractor management, and number-plate recognition matched against authorised movements.
Transport security & escorting
Armed in-transit escorts, route planning and live tracking. High-value loads covered from loading bay to delivery, with controlled handover and a documented chain at each end.
VIP protection & CPO
Discreet close protection for executives, dignitaries, visiting delegations and families. CPOs, advance work, venue and route reconnaissance, low profile by default.
24/7 CCTV monitoring
Trained operators watching your sites around the clock from our control room. Incidents spotted live, alarms verified before dispatch, and response coordinated in seconds rather than reviewed the next morning.
Security systems & access control
Alarms, cameras, electric fencing and gate automation, installed and maintained to work with your guarding plan — not sold as a substitute for it.
Risk assessment & investigation
Site surveys and threat assessments before anything is deployed. When a matter is opened: enquiry, evidence handling, statements and reporting in a form that survives challenge at a hearing or in court.
A mine is not a site with a fence. It is five problems at once.
Illegal mining, cable and copper theft, syndicate incursion, product loss at the weighbridge, and the internal assistance that makes most of it possible. Each of those is defeated in a different place, by a different method — which is why a single guarding contract, priced by headcount, rarely moves the loss number. The five layers below are set out for a mine because that is the hardest case; the same model is how we plan a plant, a depot, a distribution centre or an office park.
Perimeter and outer ground
Fence lines, tailings, old workings and the approaches nobody drives past. Armed deployment at known incursion points, irregular patrol timing so the pattern cannot be learned, and aerial sweeps over the kilometres a vehicle cannot cover between passes. Detection has to happen out here, while there is still distance to work with.
Access control and search
Controlled entry and exit for employees, contractors, visitors and vehicles. Personal and vehicle searching to a written procedure that survives a hearing. Number-plate recognition at gates and weighbridges, with movement matched against the load that was authorised. Most product does not leave over a fence — it leaves through a gate, on paperwork.
Plant, shafts and production areas
Static and patrolling officers where value concentrates: shaft heads, plant, smelter, stores, workshops and stockpiles. Supervised shifts with accountable handovers, and camera coverage watched live rather than reviewed after a loss. Guarding inside the fence is where discipline shows, and it is the first thing that slips.
Transport, load-out and escorting
High-value loads covered from loading bay to delivery. Armed in-transit escorts, route planning, live vehicle tracking and controlled handover at destination. The hours between a load leaving a weighbridge and arriving at a refinery are the least supervised part of the chain, and syndicates know it.
The people
Vetting of employees, contractors and transporters. Behavioural risk indicators applied to a defined population with human judgement over the output. A route for concerns to be raised, structured triage, and investigation by the same firm that holds the contract — so nothing is lost in the gap between providers. The security complement itself is treated as part of the risk picture, which is the part most guarding proposals leave out.
Where a contract starts
With a site risk assessment, not a quote. We walk the ground, look at your incident history, your camera coverage, your access points and your load-out process, and come back with what is actually exposed and what it costs to close. Budget then goes to real risk rather than assumed risk — and you can put the assessment in front of your own board.
Why the evidence matters as much as the arrest
Maximum Notion has been an investigative practice since 2007. Recovering product is one outcome; being able to dismiss, prosecute or recover civilly is another, and that depends entirely on how the scene, the statements and the footage were handled in the first hour. Chain of custody is maintained from the first concern, by the same people who guard the site.
Guards, drones and algorithms.
Every guarding company lists the same services. What separates this one is that the group flies what it deploys, builds its own software, and has run intelligence work since 2007. Three capabilities behind the officers on the ground — and one argument that ties them together.
Covering ground nobody can patrol.
Operated by SACAA-licensed remote pilots under a Remotely Piloted Aircraft Operator Certificate, in accordance with Civil Aviation Regulations Part 101.
A mine perimeter is measured in kilometres. Patrolling it properly means vehicles, fuel, officers and time — and it still leaves gaps between passes that a syndicate can learn. An aircraft removes the gap.
- Perimeter and tailings sweeps on irregular schedules, covering in minutes what a vehicle covers in an hour.
- Thermal detection after dark, which is when incursion happens and when ground patrols see least.
- First response to an alarm — an aircraft is overhead while a vehicle is still moving, so the control room knows what it is sending officers into before they arrive.
- Stockpile and old-workings observation over ground that is unsafe or impractical to walk.
- Evidence from above — timestamped, GPS-tagged footage of an incursion in progress, worth considerably more than a statement written afterwards.
The cameras are already there. Nobody can watch them all.
Built with our strategic partner, Ai Software Development (Pty) Ltd, and deployed on the cameras a site already owns.
Most mines have more cameras than any control room can meaningfully watch. Operator attention across a wall of screens degrades within about twenty minutes; after that the cameras are recording evidence for later rather than preventing anything now. Analytics close that gap — they narrow what a person has to look at, so the operator is alerted instead of expected to notice.
- Detection on existing cameras — line-crossing, loitering, direction of travel, person versus vehicle versus animal.
- Alarm verification before dispatch, cutting the false call-outs that make armed response expensive and slow to trust.
- Number-plate recognition at gates and weighbridges, matched against expected loads and authorised movements.
- Pattern detection in access and weighbridge data — the same badge, the same vehicle, the same shift, recurring where it should not.
- Faster review when a matter is opened, instead of an officer scrubbing through nights of recorded video.
The honest version of this claim
Analytics reduce what a person has to watch. They do not replace the person, and no adverse action is ever taken against an individual on a model output alone. Procurement teams have been sold magic before; we would rather state the limit up front.
The layer that makes the other two hold.
Human threat intelligence and insider threat prevention — the discipline our investigative practice was already doing, now run with better instrumentation.
Gates open. Cameras face the wrong way. Patrol timings are known. Loads leave with paperwork that matches. Almost no external theft on a mine works without inside assistance — which means a perimeter hardened with drones and analytics, and nothing done about the human layer, displaces the problem rather than removing it.
- Vetting of employees, contractors and transporters, before appointment and periodically after.
- Human network mapping — the relationships, associations and dependencies a structure chart does not show.
- Behavioural risk indicators applied to a defined population, with human judgement over the output.
- A route for concerns to be raised, and structured triage — most resolve as nothing, and the rest become a file.
- Lawful basis first — monitoring scoped under POPIA and employment law before anything is switched on, using the least intrusive method that answers the question.
In one sentence
Drones see the ground nobody can patrol. Analytics watch the cameras nobody can watch. Intelligence work handles the people who make the rest possible. Officers on the ground act on what all three find — and the same firm proves it afterwards.
Certified, registered, and accountable for it.
Mining procurement does not take security claims on trust, and it should not. Everything below is verifiable, and the underlying certificates are available on request.
Registration and licensing
- PSIRA 2393012 — registered security service provider under the Private Security Industry Regulation Act.
- Officers individually registered with PSIRA, graded and current, not registered at company level only.
- SACAA Part 101 — aerial work carried out by licensed remote pilots operating under an RPAS Operator Certificate, with registered aircraft.
- Firearm competency and control maintained for all armed deployment, with issue, return and use recorded.
How we stay defensible
- Lawful basis before monitoring — anything touching individuals is scoped under POPIA and employment law before it is switched on.
- Proportionality — the least intrusive method that answers the question, and no further.
- Human in the loop — no adverse action taken against a person on an automated output alone.
- Chain of custody maintained from the first concern, so evidence survives a disciplinary hearing or a court.
- Auditability — access, decisions and escalations recorded, and available to your own compliance function.
On the ground since 2007. With engineers behind it.
Maximum Notion has been a registered security service provider and investigative practice since 2007, operating from Midrand, Gauteng. The protective side of the business is what the firm was built on, and it remains the reason the intelligence work is grounded in evidence rather than dashboards.
The technology is not bought in as a brochure line. It is built alongside us by our strategic partner, and run by the same people who have to stand behind the result.
Strategic partner — Ai Software Development (Pty) Ltd
The analytics, case tooling and data work behind our technology services are built with Ai Software Development, our strategic partner in applied AI and software engineering. aisoftdev.co.za
Intelligence and AI — maximumnotion.co.za
Human threat intelligence, insider threat prevention, applied AI and AI education are delivered under the Maximum Notion group at maximumnotion.co.za. If your exposure is a programme rather than a perimeter, start there.
Request a site risk assessment.
Tell us what you are trying to protect. If it is not something we should take on, we will say so on the first call — and if it is urgent, phone rather than write.
Midrand, 1685, Gauteng
CK 2007/021503/23