With a fleet of 20 cars driven by retired military drivers, Navy Driver offers transfer, security, and consulting services as part of the pilot tests for the launch of this unique protection initiative in Mexico that aims to become a more reliable alternative to app-based travel than those that exist today.
Israel Chávez, a retired officer from the Navy (Semar), and his partner Elizabeth Eskin, a security specialist, conceived this idea not only to provide safer transportation and escort options but to address the lack of job opportunities for retired military personnel who, although they have defense training, are left without work upon discharge from the Armed Forces.
The actions of a civilian driver or escort are not the same as those of one with military training. We do intelligence work because 90% of our work is preventive, also intelligence, to prevent major security incidents and, in the latter case, act following our military training to take care of 100% of our client’s safety.
Navy Driver aims to become a more reliable alternative to app-based travel than those that exist today, amid the context of insecurity that prevails in the country.
“Due to insecurity, there are many needs in Mexico, not only from businessmen, anyone requires a trustworthy service, from a transfer, safekeeping of valuables or an escort service, and we have services appropriate to the needs and affordable prices according to the type of need,” explained in an interview Israel Chávez, who served for 22 years in the Armed Forces.
In 2021, the former paratrooper of the Mexican Air Force (FAM) left the military ranks and noticed that his options to reintegrate into the labor market were few and none outside of accompaniment activities as security personnel under civilian command.
Israel Chavez decided to work as a bodyguard in the business sector, where he realized that military training is useful in the face of the diversification of organized crime activities, the need for small and medium-sized businesses to hire a quality security service, but one that does not have such high prices, and the high demand from ordinary citizens to hire experts with military training to be protected during their activities.
This is how he decided to create this new project called Navy Driver.
To date, Navy Driver is a service fully funded by its creators, who plan to turn it into a website in a few months, and then into an application, since today the service has spread by word of mouth among private clients and through social networks.
Source: El Universal
