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WHO IS SENTINEL?

Sentinel Integrated Security Services, Inc. is a 55-year-old company which was an adjunct private agency with 800 guards from San Miguel Corporation. What used to be security agency exclusive for San Miguel now caters to more than 40 international and global companies employing over 1200 guards. With the evolution of the security industry, Sentinel has evolved to become a Professional Employee Organization (PEO). Employing only the best and most qualified security personnel in the market. While character and education are our primary requirement for our personnel, we believe in continued growth so we can evolve with the changing times. We provide the best and most reliable security and support services by advocating education and training.

Sentinel has become a plethora of diverse talents dedicated to serve and meet one goal; to provide the best security service and continue the legacy of Col. Jose P. Rueda. Whose dedication to this industry is not one of financial gain or power but to uphold the pride and dignity of security men and women, whose selfless dedication to their sworn duty is equal to your utmost security.

Over the years Sentinel has branched out to different areas of security detail services such as background investigation as part of HR Support Services, Crisis management support, event security management, VIP protection support and comprehensive security audit. We have invested in the breadth and depth of Sentinel to continue nothing short of excellent service by becoming an ISO Certified 9001:2015 by the United Registrar of Systems (URS) of the United Kingdom.

Other Services

Human Resources Support Services

Businesses have re-opened and as we witness the economy bouncing back to life, we understand the company’s needs and so we offer various human resource support services which are cost-effective and reliable. We provide a pre-employment background check, address verification, document validation, and other added valuable information about the employee without compromising their privacy.

Crisis Management Support

During floods, typhoons and calamities, Sentinel has mindfully extended to the forefront in support of emergency response, rescue or recovery missions of our concerned clients. During typhoons Yolanda and Odette (internationally known as “Haiyan” and “Super Typhoon Rai” respectively), we have been active participants in the location of employees trapped in emergency-struck areas, and the distribution of relief aid to designated victims. Our commitment to the welfare of our client-communities is embodied in our CSR outreach and active participation in their emergency response during calamities.

Event Security

Sentinel is a dependable comprehensive security provider of one of the biggest beverage companies in the industry. Ensuring uncompromised site surveys and recommendations relative to the venue as well as deployment of security personnel to vouch for the security of attendees and staff while securing the parameters of the event that can range from large gatherings, business meetings, to conferences and conventions.

VIP Protection Support

Sentinel has occasionally been tapped by longtime clients to secure their largest assets, their VIP’s and top management, in special events and corporate-social-responsibilities activities. When justified by security-risk assessments, corporate leaders and VIP’s are provided Protection Agents to ensure their and their family’s safety.

Comprehensive Security Audit

Security auditing is the formal examination of the process and review of standards actions taken. This process is necessary to determine the effectiveness of existing security controls, watch for system misuse or abuse by users, verify compliance with current security policies, capture evidence of the commission of a crime, validate that documented procedures are followed, and the detection of anomalies or intrusions. Sentinel requires that the correct data be recorded and undergo periodic review

Who We Are

We are an ISO Certified security agency with a proven track record of providing top-notch and reliable service to our clients. We live up to the 54 years of excellent service in the industry.

Our Vision

To make SENTINEL the largest, most competitive and highly efficient security provider in the country.

Our Mission

To advance the pioneering endeavors and achievement of our founders by providing the highest value-added and best quality services, with dedication and commitment to the company’s customs and tradition for excellence.

CORPORATE MILESTONES

1968

On June 5, 1968, Col. Jose P. Rueda, together with a single business partner and others, incorporated Sentinel Watchman & Protective Agency, Inc. (“Sentinel”) and located the security outfit in Sta Mesa, Manila. This was undertaken principally in preparation for the contractualization of the company security force of San Miguel Corporation composed of some 800 company guards. San Miguel Corporation, then under the leadership of Don Andres Soriano and his son Andres Soriano, Jr., was an institution Col. Rueda had served as its Security Director. In an “old-school” sense of loyalty, the SMC patriarch rewarded his loyal executive, a man he had initially come to know in the Second World War, when as a police Captain, he had participated in escorting Gen. Douglas McArthur to Leyte where he famously uttered his famous “I shall return” line. This is a historic event the SMC patriarch and the Sentinel founder jointly shared and dearly held close to their hearts.

Other business friends of the founder quickly lent their patronage to the new corporation. Notably Coca-Cola, then a San Miguel Corporation distribution partner, Roche Pharmaceuticals, and La Suerte Cigar & Cigarette Factory, then local contract manufacturers of cigarette brands Marlboro and Philip Morris, formed part of Sentinel’s initial client portfolio. Proudly, they remain clients up to today and embody the sort of loyal business relationships that had to be forged to survive the half-century since.

1980

The external contracting of security services expanded well into the succeeding decades. Since its formative years, the company grew steadily to an apex of over 3000 security personnel across multiple industries and geographical regions in Luzon. Its client portfolio reflected its security-force growth. However, encouraged by a martial-law period of military and police empowerment, this second decade of existence also witnessed the hyper-extension of the security industry’s governing police bodies. The corporation’s exponential growth proved short-lived.

1983-86

Coupled with political instability and excessive taxation during the waning martial law years in the Philippines, the national political and financial challenges of the time swiftly rippled its way into corporate financial stability, culminating in a bankruptcy threat for Sentinel in 1983. A lifeline extended by then Chief PNP Fidel V. Ramos provided a limited window for corrective action. In 1986, a liquidator, in the person of a 3rd generation Rueda family member, was brought in to financially restructure the corporation and manage its untended excessive obligations. Prior unsustainable expansion led to business contraction and right-sizing that would be marked by selective repudiations of time-tested business relationships, truly a difficult and painful experience in its history, the turmoil of the 80’s.

1989-90

Since its existentially challenging years, the company gradually recovered financially. By the turn of the decade, the timely invite to former Chief PNP BGen Flaviano P. Olivares to act as General Manager and to restore the professional integrity of its security operations marked the turning point to Sentinel’s lifeline. He would soon be promoted to be the first and only corporate President outside of the founding Rueda family and would soon be joined by Col. Arquilao G. Cortez whose battlefield experience in the Philippine south lent the operational acumen and youth that would sustain corporate recovery.

1993

Sentinel Watchman & Protective Agency celebrated its 25th founding anniversary with its 89-year-old founder, Col. Jose P Rueda. Together with comrades-in-arm then President BGen Flaviano P. Olivares and the General Manager Col. Arquilao G. Cortez for the last time, this joyous event would be his last official activity with the institution he formed over two decades past. Behind the scenes, in the boardroom, the company’s 25th anniversary milestone was marred by a declaration of the other founding partner’s desire for corporate dissolution by vetoing a proposed amendment in the Articles of Incorporation, particularly on the term of the corporation. This disagreement would drag for a two-year period resulting in corporate uncertainty.

1995

Finally, after a protracted negotiation under the monitoring of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and an instrumental compromise on consolidation, the business of Sentinel Watchman & Protective Agency, Inc. was spun-off and officially re-incorporated on May 26, 1995, into Sentinel Integrated Services, Inc., marking its 27th year of continuous corporate existence. Ambitiously, by embarking on the surviving corporation’s capital re-structuring and re-organization design, the re-engineering plan attempted to lay the ground for the next half-century of security operations that would be more responsive to the economies of scale of the time. Such is the Sentinel that exists today.

2003

After the deaths of the founder Col Rueda and BGen Olivares, as well as the retirement of Col. Cortes, and after 17 years of operating in the backroom, the chief engineer of the corporate liquidation of the 80’s and consolidation in the 90’s has finally been convinced by its stockholders to take up the reins of Sentinel’s 3rd generation leadership. The current President, Jose MA Rueda-Manotok, was unanimously elected by stockholders. Dr. Jesus R. Manotok assumes the positions of Vice-President & Treasurer concurrently, replacing the former. He is also registered with the PNP as the Agency “operator”, replacing Col. Cortes.

2007

Sentinel introduces a new management team under Mario V. Manipol, Jr. as General Manager, and concurrently Assistant Vice President. He ushers the company into a new arena of digital technology with the creativity of younger blood and with the grit and stamina of an experienced security practitioner as Sentinel aims to move forward in the new millennia.

2013

Sentinel hosts the Secretariat of the American Society of Industrial Security as its GM assumes the Chapter Chairmanship. The exposure into the international community of the local security industry is expected to enhance the credibility of the organization among its foreign clients.

2017

Sentinel thoughtfully re-organized its management structure to purposefully seek ISO accreditation for Quality Management System and was successfully granted an ISO 9001:2015 certification under the United Registrar of Systems (URS) of the United Kingdom (UK). To this day, Sentinel has pro-actively sustained its ISO certification.

2018

Sentinel celebrated its 50th anniversary of corporate existence in 2018. It marked its 50th Anniversary by embarking on a second capital-structure re-engineering program, gearing up for another expansion binge. A branch was established in Calamba, Laguna to service Southern Luzon clients. This branch had to close during the Covid pandemic in 2020, as regional mobility was heavily restricted.

2022

In support of the Philippine National Police’s nomenclature program, Sentinel launched a new logo under its new corporate name “Sentinel Integrated Security Services, Inc.”. It welcomes with open arms RA 11917, increasing the upper limit of private security agencies to two thousand (2000) security personnel. Branches are simultaneously established in Northern Luzon to expand its geographical reach.

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Sentinel offers a wide range of security solutions that can be custom-made to suit your business needs. We take pride in doing things the right way, from plans development to deployment. We work alongside clients for cost-effective and value-added services.

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WHO IS SENTINEL?

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Event Security

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Comprehensive Security Audit

Who We Are

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1983-86

1989-90

1993

1995

2003

2007

2013

2017

2018

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