The Fiji agents for key international security firms operating in Iraq are launching new recruitment drives to send more former Fiji servicemen there within weeks.
Global Risk Strategies, with 200 Fiji recruits already in Iraq, is joining another British firm, Homeland Security, in announcing that it will begin recruiting again in the new year although it cannot yet say how many men it will need this time.
Homeland Security says it is looking for 50 former servicemen who will probably leave for Iraq between January the 4th and January the 7th.
This will boost the 78 Fiji guards the firm already has working in Baghdad and Basra.
Both firms say interest in the work remains keen.
Homeland Security's Suva-based marketing manager, Enele Malele, says he is looking for men with police, military or prison training.
"At the moment we are only still looking at the ex-servicement, ex-police, ex-military, ex-prison officers. Those who have already served in the diciplined services and done some peacekeeping operations in various part of the world. We are looking at these sort of people."
