Security services

Purpose. To reduce the likelihood and consequence of harm, disruption or intrusion affecting a principal, while allowing their professional and personal activity to continue normally.

Typically required where a client's public profile, commercial role, legal circumstances or travel pattern creates exposure that ordinary arrangements do not address — or where a specific, credible concern has arisen.

Planning considerations: advance work on venues and routes, movement scheduling, communication and reporting structure, contingency arrangements, coordination with the principal's staff, and the level of visibility appropriate to the setting.

Client benefit: continuity. Meetings still happen, travel still happens, and the arrangement is designed to be unremarkable to everyone except the people running it.

Compliance: available only where protective work is lawful for private providers, personnel are licensed as required, and work authorisation and insurance are in place. Full page

Purpose. To improve the everyday safety of an individual or family through planning, practical adjustment and, where justified, protective support — without turning ordinary life into a security operation.

Typically required by private individuals, family offices and households facing a change in circumstances: a new public role, relocation, a legal dispute, unwanted attention, or concern for family members who travel independently.

Planning considerations: patterns of movement and routine, residential arrangements, children's schooling and activities, domestic staff, online exposure, and the client's own tolerance for intrusion into family life.

Client benefit: proportionate measures that reduce predictable exposure, and a clear understanding of what is and is not a genuine concern.

Compliance: subject to local law and licensing; delivered as planning and advisory support where protective personnel cannot lawfully be provided.

Purpose. To help an organisation understand its security position and improve it in a structured, prioritised way — covering people, premises, process and preparedness.

Typically required during growth, relocation, restructuring, entry into a new market, after an incident, or when a board or insurer asks for an independent view of arrangements that have grown up informally.

Planning considerations: access control and visitor management, staff safety, the security implications of company processes, protection of senior personnel, supplier and contractor arrangements, and incident escalation.

Client benefit: a defensible, documented position that management can act on, budget against and review, rather than an accumulation of ad-hoc measures.

Compliance: advisory work; implementation of guarding or manned services is subject to local licensing and may require a licensed local provider.

Purpose. To prepare a traveller properly before departure and support them sensibly while away, so that ordinary problems remain ordinary.

Typically required for travel to unfamiliar destinations, travel by individuals whose role attracts attention, corporate duty-of-care programmes, and itineraries that combine several jurisdictions in a short period.

Planning considerations: destination assessment, arrival and transfer arrangements, accommodation review, communication plan, local legal and cultural factors, medical and insurance provision, and agreed check-in and escalation procedures.

Client benefit: fewer avoidable incidents, and a defined route to assistance when something does go wrong.

Compliance: in-country support subject to local law, licensing and immigration; arrangements may require licensed local partners. International page

Purpose. To answer a specific security question properly: what the actual exposure is, what would reduce it, what it would cost and what it would disrupt.

Typically required when a client must make a decision — whether to change premises, whether an arrangement is adequate, whether a proposed measure is proportionate, or how to respond to a new concern.

Planning considerations: defining the question precisely, agreeing the scope and method, identifying the evidence required, and establishing who the recommendations are for and who will implement them.

Client benefit: independent analysis with no incentive to over-specify, delivered in language a non-specialist decision-maker can act on.

Compliance: advisory work delivered under contract; findings are confidential to the client and handled on a need-to-know basis.

Purpose. To evaluate a person, premises, event, journey or organisation against a consistent framework, producing findings that are specific, prioritised and traceable to evidence.

Typically required as the first stage of any substantial engagement, as an independent review of existing arrangements, or as a periodic re-examination when circumstances have changed.

Planning considerations: scope and boundaries, access required, the people to be interviewed, the criteria applied, and how findings will be recorded, stored and eventually disposed of.

Client benefit: a clear picture of where genuine exposure lies, which almost never matches where a client expected it to be.

Compliance: conducted with consent and lawful access only; no covert entry, surveillance or intrusive testing of any kind.

Purpose. To plan the security arrangements for an event so that the event succeeds — which usually means the arrangements are barely noticed by those attending.

Typically required for corporate functions, private gatherings, public appearances, launches and conferences, particularly where attendees include people whose presence attracts attention.

Planning considerations: venue assessment, access and accreditation, arrival and departure flow, crowd and capacity factors, medical provision, coordination with venue and any licensed local security, and a clear incident and evacuation plan.

Client benefit: a plan that has been thought through in advance, with responsibilities assigned and contingencies agreed before the day.

Compliance: planning and coordination; stewarding and guarding are provided by appropriately licensed operators where the jurisdiction requires it.

Purpose. To improve the security of a residence in a way the household will actually sustain, balancing protection against the fact that a home must remain a home.

Typically required on relocation, after a change in a family's circumstances or profile, following an incident in the area, or when existing measures were installed without an assessment behind them.

Planning considerations: approach and perimeter, entry points, lighting, alarm and monitoring arrangements, domestic staff procedures, deliveries and visitors, and household routines that create predictability.

Client benefit: a prioritised list of changes — typically starting with procedural ones that cost nothing — rather than a quotation for equipment.

Compliance: advisory; installation and monitoring are delivered by appropriately licensed local providers.

Purpose. To ensure that when something serious happens, the people involved are carrying out a plan they already understand rather than improvising under pressure.

Typically required by organisations with dispersed staff, families with international exposure, and clients who have recognised that their current plan exists only in one person's head.

Planning considerations: credible scenarios, decision authority and thresholds, notification and communication arrangements, roles during the first hour, welfare of those affected, record-keeping, and rehearsal.

Client benefit: faster, calmer, better-documented decisions at the point where the quality of decisions matters most.

Compliance: preparedness planning only. We do not conduct negotiations with criminal actors, and we do not facilitate any unlawful response.

Purpose. To identify what an organisation cannot afford to stop doing, and to arrange matters so that those activities survive a disruption.

Typically required where a security incident, facility loss, travel disruption or personnel emergency would immediately interrupt activity that clients, regulators or employees depend on.

Planning considerations: identification of critical functions, acceptable interruption periods, dependencies on people, premises and suppliers, alternative arrangements, and the trigger for invoking them.

Client benefit: continuity arrangements proportionate to the organisation's actual dependencies, tested rather than assumed.

Compliance: advisory work; interacts with the client's own legal, regulatory and insurance obligations, which remain the client's responsibility.

Purpose. To identify, verify and coordinate appropriately qualified specialists for a defined requirement, on defined terms, with accountability that remains clear throughout.

Typically required where a client needs particular expertise for a limited period, or requires personnel in a location where they have no assessed relationships of their own.

Planning considerations: precise definition of the role, the verification standard applied, licensing and work authorisation in the jurisdiction, contracting and insurance, reporting lines, and handover arrangements.

Client benefit: people whose background, qualification and lawful status have been checked before they arrive, not afterwards.

Compliance: no individual is engaged without verification, lawful work authorisation and written contract. Our specialists