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Vision

To provide second career professionals the opportunity to apply their expertise and experience toward solving complex security-related problems, at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels, using a multi-disciplinary approach in both the private and public sectors.

Qualifications

All ESG personnel have been specifically selected based on their previously demonstrated work ethic, operational experience, security-related expertise and personal integrity. Many team members have participated together in numerous high risk/high profile law enforcement deployments ranging from kidnappings to international terrorist incidents to include the following:

  • Freeman Stand-off, Jordan, Montana
  • Force protection following the bombing of the USS Cole, Yemen
  • Tactical response to the East African Embassy Bombings
  • Fugitive Investigation for Olympic Bomber Eric Rudolph
  • Prison Riot/Hostage Taking Crisis at St. Martinsville, Louisiana
  • Remove Protestors from Vieques Island, Puerto Rico
  • Operational Deployment to Atlanta, Georgia for the 1996 Olympics
  • Force Protection At St. Thomas, US Virgin Island following Hurricane Marilyn
  • High Risk Drug Raids and Kidnapping Extortion Investigations in San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Executive Protection Detail for Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI Director Louis Freeh and many other nationally/ internationally know dignitaries
  • Crime Scene Investigation for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at Kosovo
  • Operational Deployment for the NATO 50th, four presidential inaugurals, the Capitol Millennium Celebration, four UN General Assembly Meetings, two Summit of the Eight Meetings, the 2000 Republican National Convention, and the Federal Trial of Oklahoma City Bomber Tim McVeig

In addition to operational assistance, ESG personnel were also responsible for conducting national training programs in Weapons of Mass Destruction, Crisis Management, Hostage Negotiations, Hostage Rescue, SWAT, Special Aviation Operations, Explosive Ordnance Matters and Command Post Operations, to include conducting national level command post (CPX) and Field Training Exercises (FTX). They were also instrumental in conducting tactical site surveys/vulnerability assessments at the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) Buildings in Washington, DC; numerous Embassies and residences of foreign and domestic dignitaries; and all buildings and venues for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Roger Nisley // President


About the President

Founder and President of ESG, Roger Nisley, is a retired FBI Agent with over thirty years service. He was a Special Agent whose career included extensive investigative, administrative, operational and training experiences. As a street agent, he specialized in bank robbery, fugitive, SWAT and complex criminal investigations, as well as having considerable undercover experience. As a first-line supervisor, he managed numerous high profile investigations, some of which received considerable national media attention. As a Bureau executive for twenty-plus years, he held a variety of leadership positions to include being responsible for all FBI personnel transfers; being the second-in-command of an FBI field office; being the Commander of the nation’s only full-time law enforcement counter-terrorist team, the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT); and for the last three years of his Bureau career, was the Special Agent in Charge of the Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG), which was created to provide an emergency response to a variety of critical incidents to include child abductions, hostage taking/barricade situations, and terrorist incidents.

For the past 10-plus years, he has been a member of the National Native American Advisory Committee for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and a member of the Board of Directors/Law Enforcement Committee for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). During that time, he has also been a member of the President’s Advisory Council for the University of Mary Washington and of the National Native American Law Enforcement Association. He is currently the Chief Volunteer Officer for the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Boys and Girls Club.

He attends Calvary Chapel Church of Ft. Lauderdale where he volunteers on the Law Enforcement Fellowship Advisory Team and with the 4Kids of South Florida foster care program. In 2007 he received the President’s Volunteer Service Award for his community work on behalf of America’s children.

 

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