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<p><b>Erinys International</b> is a <a href="/pages/w/112483542097587">British</a> <a href="/pages/w/1446039368848629">private security company</a> registered in the <a href="/pages/w/109397902411965">British Virgin Islands</a>. The Group operational HQ is in <a href="/pages/w/815516708540603">Dubai</a>, <a href="/pages/w/105821052786102">UAE</a> and other offices are in Andover, Hampshire (Erinys UK Ltd) and <a href="/pages/w/109480902404412">Johannesburg</a> (Erinys South Africa Ltd).</p><p>Erinys International has subsidiaries in the UK, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo and associated companies in <a href="/pages/w/103415006357417">Iraq</a> and <a href="/pages/w/107504222612764">Nigeria</a>.</p><p>Erinys Group companies provide security and support (for example: communications and logistics) services for personnel and assets, except for Erinys South Africa, which specialises in the provision of ongoing and ad hoc risk evaluations of countries and projects particularly in Africa.</p><h2>Origin of the name</h2><p>The word "<a href="/pages/w/110970842261275">Erinys</a>" refers to the avenging deities in Greek religion, who lived at the entrance to the Underworld. Their first duty was to see to the punishment of those who had committed some crime in the world above, but had arrived at Hades without obtaining absolution from the gods. Sometimes this duty extended to the world of men, where the Erinys (also called Dirae, Furiae, Eumenides or Semnae) would pursue criminals, at the behest of Nemesis, permitting the fugitive no rest.</p><h2>Staff</h2><p>Erinys International was founded by Jonathan Garratt in 2001. In 2002, Erinys South Africa was formed after acquisition of the risk assessment business of Strategic Concepts Pty Ltd, a company formed by Sean Cleary, who was a director of Erinys International until he resigned in 2003 after the company secured its first contract in Iraq.</p>