Cyprus, since 2004

ArmorGroup has provided integrated manual and mine detection dog demining units to clear minefields and booby traps in the “Buffer Zone” which divides north and south Cyprus. Services have included:

• general mine action and impact assessments;
• technical survey;
• minefield clearance and marking;
• EOD activities, including the clearance of buildings.

ArmorGroup teams were also tasked to provide an emergency response capability to react to any incidents and reports of mines or UXO.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 1996

ArmorGroup Mine Action teams have provided mine risk eduction, national capacity training, project equipment and carried out minefield site supervision and mine clearance works for the International (Slovenian) Trust Fund, the EC, the World Bank and UN agencies.

Kosovo, 1999 – 2001

ArmorGroup was appointed Lead Agency in south western Kosovo to co-ordinate the activities of all humanitarian mine action within the region from UXO and ERW clearance and mine awareness to casualty evacuation, immediately post hostilities.

ArmorGroup worked in cooperation with the UN and other mine action organisations to clear mines and UXO in order to facilitate the return of refugees to their homes. ArmorGroup’s involvement in this European Union and British Government sponsored programme ran from inception to completion.

A fully integrated Mine Action approach was applied using mine detection dogs, mechanical ground preparation and a combination of rapid response EOD and survey teams backed up by manual clearance teams.

ArmorGroup also assisted with training national EOD capacity.

Croatia, 2001 – 2002

ArmorGroup Mine Action carried out a number of different programmes:

• Support to the Croatian Mine Action Centre and the World Bank to clear roads in the area of Zadar and Sibenik.
• Provision of mine detection dogs and deep search teams to a large construction company during the building of a new highway linking the north of the country to the south
• Conducted technical and impact surveys and mine clearance in Eastern Slovonia.