Built on referrals. Run on discretion.
Close protection, secure driving and residential security, with one person accountable throughout.
With more than 30 years in the security industry — over 20 of them in close protection, residential security, secure driving and private family work, on UK and international deployments — the founder built First Class Executive Security the way this industry should work — slowly, and by referral.
For most of that career, a website would have been beside the point: one protected principal recommended our founder to the next.
That has not changed. What has changed is that the people who need protection are newer to wealth, younger, and more visible than any generation before them — and they look for security the way they look for everything else.
The firm is senior-led and boutique. It serves private clients, families and principals visiting Britain rather than corporate guarding contracts — UK-wide, from a Lincolnshire base. When a detail needs a team, it scales by subcontracting to operatives the founder has worked with: chosen for the task, not pulled from a roster.
The founder
Checkable
SIA Close Protection licence
Current to 2028 — verifiable on the SIA's public register.
Close protection qualification
City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate in Close Protection, Hereford, 2006.
Vetting
BS 7858 — screening, references and history.
Wider training
Advanced driving, emergency first response, physical intervention, conflict management, counter-terrorism awareness, Project Griffin, Project Argus.
How we work:
Senior operatives only. We are small. You will never be sold a junior at a senior rate.
Proportion over volume. Where a competitor would sell you four officers, we will recommend one and a driver if that is what the job needs.
Discretion. We do not discuss who we protect — before, during, or after.
Published rates. Day rates are on this site — £300 to £1,000 depending on risk and profile — because a buyer should not have to ring four firms to learn what protection costs. The cost guide sets it out in full.
What we do not do
Static guarding, door supervision and keyholding. Alarm and CCTV installation — where systems are needed we specify and oversee, and accredited installers fit. Investigations, bug sweeping and cyber security — specialist disciplines in their own right, which we refer rather than claim.
A firm that lists everything is telling you something.