Garda World Security Corporation provides security solutions, cash logistics, and risk consulting services. The cash logistics segment offers armored transportation, cargo aircraft, deposit processing, cash vault, in-store cash control systems, and check imaging, and ATM services for banks and financial institutions, retailers, restaurants, and government agencies. The security solutions segment provides security agents for people and assets protection in various sectors, such as health care, government, telecommunications, natural resources, retail, property management, special events, and transportation. This segment also offers airport pre-board security screening, asset protection, crisis management, and patrol response services. The company also provides global risk consulting services, such as market entry strategy, project risk assessment, contingency planning, close protection, crisis response, and risk analysis services. It also provides pre-employment screening services comprising verifications of criminal records, credit reports, references, education, and professional accreditation, as well as psychometric assessments and drug and alcohol testing; and consulting and investigation services for the detection of wrongful acts and offenses, such as workplace harassment, assault, threats, absenteeism, drugs and narcotics, theft and fraud, forgery, copyright infringement, and industrial espionage, as well as work conflicts protective services. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Montreal, Canada. As of November 13, 2012, Garda World Security Corp. was taken private.